IBM Watson

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/ibm-watson

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the system architecture?Based on the DeepQA project, integrating NLP, IR, and ML
2. What is the lead investigator?David Ferrucci
3. How did Watson win at Jeopardy!?In 2011, Watson played Jeopardy! against human champions, using its ability to read many books and websites to answer questions faster and more accurately.
4. What does Watson do in hospitals?At the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Watson helps doctors by looking at a patient’s records and medical books to suggest the best lung‑cancer treatments.

Cognitive Computing: AI systems designed to simulate human thought processes and decision-making.
Unstructured Data: Information that does not have a predefined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner.
Natural Language Understanding (NLU): A subfield of NLP focused on enabling computers to comprehend the meaning of human language.