Three Watson Startups Announced

How well a new advanced technology service is working can be measured by how startups are effectively using its capabilities. See the full report.   " ... More early-stage companies are signing up for IBM’s fancy Watson supercomputing technology for processing lots of text and then making decisions on the fly. But they’re not rolling in big racks full of servers and hard disk drives to do this. They’re tapping into Watson-as-a-Service. ... On Friday, IBM named three new partners in its burgeoning Watson initiative, following its decision to make Watson available as a managed service. Modernizing Medicine, a company with an electronic medical record system, is using Watson to beef up a new application doctors can use to pull up information while they’re working with patients. ... "