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Watson

Artificial intelligence computer system made by IBM

Entityone-of-a-kind computer supercomputerQ12253

Also known as IBM Watson

Instance of: one-of-a-kind computer
, supercomputer
Country: United States
Founded: 2000s

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

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Named after: Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Developer: IBM Research
Participant in: Jeopardy!
Manufacturer: IBM
Significant person: John E. Kelly III
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David Ferrucci
CPU: POWER7 quantity: 360 · clock frequency: 3.5 GHz
Number of processor cores: 1,440
Operating system: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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