[Dn_Ab]

Watson is used here the same way people use Hoover and Kleenex. I thought the article would be about IBM beginning to refit their question/answering inference system for aiding in diagnosis at hospitals. But it is not.

The article is about researchers monitoring large streams of data and using machine learning to help in detecting whether an infant in the ICU has an infection. The data streaming tech is from IBM though and based on what was used in Watson, so there is that link.

Interesting work nonetheless and hopefully an echo of things to come. Perhaps those working in the analysis and prediction on massive streams of data part of HFT could reapply their skills here in a way that could literally save lives.

[scott_s]

based on what is used in Watson, so there is that link.

It's actually not. There really is no connection between the two other than being from the same research lab.

[Dn_Ab]

Oh I did not know that. I guess I was tricked by the wording in this sentence:

"Artemis is built on an analytics platform called InfoSphere Streams that, like Watson, emerged from IBM research into ways that software can make decisions on the spot using data arriving at a high speed from many different sources".

I thought they started from the same origin and then split focuses. Thanks for the correction.

[scott_s]

It's not your fault, it was written in a misleading (and in some ways incorrect) manner.