{"id":48676,"date":"2015-01-21T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=48676"},"modified":"2015-01-21T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:08:49","slug":"3-innovative-uses-of-watson-from-ibms-watson-university-competition-indiaeducationdiary-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/01\/21\/3-innovative-uses-of-watson-from-ibms-watson-university-competition-indiaeducationdiary-in\/","title":{"rendered":"3 innovative uses of Watson from IBM’s Watson University Competition [indiaeducationdiary.in]"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBM Awards University of Texas at Austin Top Spot in Watson Competition<\/strong><\/a> — from indiaeducationdiary.in
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpts\/applications (emphasis and numbering via DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

New York: <\/b>IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the first winner of its Watson University Competition, part of the company\u2019s partnership with top universities through its cognitive computing academic initiative. The winning team of student entrepreneurs from the University of Texas at Austin will receive $100,000 in total in seed funding to help launch a business based on their Watson app, which offers the promise of improved citizen services.
\n…
\nThe University of Texas at Austin took home top honors with a new app called 1) CallScout, designed to give Texas residents fast and easy access to information about social services in their area. Many of Texas\u2019 27 million residents rely on the state\u2019s social services \u2013 such as transportation, healthcare, nutrition programs and housing assistance \u2013 though they can have difficulty finding the right information.<\/span><\/strong>
\n…
\n\u201cThese academic competitions expose students to a new era of computing, helps them build valuable professional skills, and provides an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

…
\nTwo other innovative projects rounded out the top three finalists in the competition. Students from the University of Toronto took second place with 2) “Ross,” an app that allows users to ask Watson legal questions related to their case work, speeding research and guiding lawyers to pertinent information to help their case.<\/span><\/strong> In third place, students from the University of California, Berkeley, designed a new app called 3) “Patent Fox” that conceptualizes patent ideas, simplifies queries, streamlines filing processes and provides confidence-ranked, evidence-based results.<\/span><\/strong>
\n…
\n\u201cThrough this program we have been able to create a unique experience that not only enabled our students to develop skills in cognitive computing, app development and team work, but also in business development.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IBM Awards University of Texas at Austin Top Spot in Watson Competition — from indiaeducationdiary.in Excerpts\/applications (emphasis and numbering via DSC): New York: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the first winner of its Watson University Competition, part of the company\u2019s partnership with top universities through its cognitive computing academic initiative. The winning team of student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,435,356,387,45,298,237,391,547,419,180,285,309,204,217,480,293,66,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-computer-science","category-data-related-items","category-entrepreneurship","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ibm","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-programming","category-research","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48679,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48676\/revisions\/48679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}