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MIT President L. Rafael Reif, left, and John Kelly III, IBM senior vice president celebrate the new collaboration

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IBM and MIT look to dominate AI research with new $240 million lab

IBM and MIT recently launched a new collaborative research lab designed to propel breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence over the next decade. The deal involves a US$240 million dollar investment from IBM, one of the largest ever seen between a university and a private company.

IBM's Watson AI system will soon be helping out in hospitals, to make stays more comfortable for patients and relieve some of the strain for doctors and nurses

Wellness and Healthy Living

IBM's Watson lends hospital staff a helping hand

Watson, IBM’s AI system, is ridiculously prolific. The latest point on the system’s resumé is to help make hospital stays more comfortable for patients and relieve strain on staff through speakers that can answer basic questions and grant patients' control over room temperature, lights or TV.

WatsonPaths uses natural language and the ability to process unstructured data to aid diagnosis

Body and Mind

IBM's Watson adapted to teach medical students and aid diagnosis

When IBM’s Watson supercomputer took on two human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy and won, it was hailed as a breakthrough in machine intelligence. Now in an effort to expand the practical applications for Watson, IBM and has revealed two new projects aimed at the medical community.

One of IBM's Watson natural language Big Data supercomputer systems (Photo: IBM)

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IBM's Watson supercomputer goes to university

IBM's Watson supercomputer is going to Rensselaer Polytechnic University where it will be the object of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and will (virtually) attend courses in English and math to hone its analytic skills.