Watson Day Yerevan 2016 to be held in Armenian capital

YEREVAN, February 10. /ARKA/. Watson Day Yerevan 2016 will be held in the Armenian capital on February 11, the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) said.

Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist Thomas J. Watson. 

The computer system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! In 2011, Watson competed on Jeopardy against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson received the first place prize of $1 million. 

Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage, including the full text of Wikipedia, but was not connected to the Internet during the game.

During the Watson Day Yerevan 2016 an IBM Watson leading specialist from the US Armen Pischdotchyan will present IBM Watson and IBM BlueMix systems to the representatives of Armenian IT and business communities and will also discuss business models which used these systems to succeed in business development.

In the meantime Armen Pischdotchyan is conducting an intensive IBM Watson system course in Yerevan.
Watson Day Yerevan 2016 will be held at the initiative of EIF and the IBM Center for Innovative Solutions and Technologies. -0-

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19:00 02/10/2016