AUSTIN-David Ferrucci, lead researcher and principal investigator at IBM Corp. for the Watson/Jeopardy! project, is scheduled to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on March 14 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin.
Attendance is only open to those with interactive badges and registration is required here.
Watson, the supercomputer created by IBM that is in the news for besting the two greatest human opponents in Jeopardy! history, took four years to complete and will soon be used for other purposes. Ferrucci’s team at IBM wants to demonstrate how Watson’s decision-making capabilities can aid in the areas of medicine, finance, publishing, government and law. His team of 28 researchers and software engineers at IBM specializes in the areas of natural language processing, software architecture, information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge representation and reasoning.
“The real power of this technology isn’t about giving the final, end-all answer,” Ferrucci said in an interview webcast from IBM. “It’s about helping you look at a huge array of information that’s beyond the scope of our ability to do it or do it quickly enough, organize it, access it, weigh it and provide that analysis.”
The Austin innovators and entrepreneurs series is sponsored by the IBM Venture Capital Group and the Austin Chamber of Commerce and hosted by the Austin IBM Innovation Center.
