Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Watson's contributions to the Teladoc platform. Watson does not offer diagnoses. With the acquisition of Best Doctors last summer, telemedicine ...

z System users with data behind their firewalls can now access IBM's training and deployment system for machine learning, packaged for convenience If you’re intrigued by IBM’s Watson AI as a service, ...

It’s been six years since IBM first alluded to plans to build artificially intelligent physician’s assistant. Even as that mission became more concrete with a formal launch of the health-focused ...

IBM Exec: The Age Of Cognitive 'Is Here' As vice president for implementations in IBM's Watson group, Ed Harbour leads Big Blue's efforts to bring cognitive computing to the masses. IBM is betting big ...

A new technical paper titled “Post-hoc Uncertainty Learning using a Dirichlet Meta-Model” was published (preprint) by researchers at MIT, University of Florida, and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab (IBM Research ...

Ever since the late 1950s, when pioneering IBM researcher Arthur Samuel trained the world's first self-learning computer to play a mean game of checkers, the future has promised a widespread emergence ...

IBM plans to acquire Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging management platform, for $1 billion. Here are six things to know about the transaction and how IBM plans to add to Watson’s capabilities. 1.