INFORMS Optimization Society Conference: Plenary Session with Manoj Saxena, IBM Watson
February 25, 2012
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
RSVP to Vanessa Ferguson (mas@miami.edu)
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Join Manoj Saxena, General Manager of IBM Watson Solutions, in an engaging discussion of how IBM Watson can fundamentally transform the way businesses and individuals make decisions and how next generation systems will be designed.
Saxena has global responsibility for the commercialization and scaling of IBM Watson based industry solutions including strategic leadership, operations, and client relationships.
The plenary session is part of the 2012 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, which will focus on "Optimization and Analytics: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice."
IBM's Watson captured the imagination of over 34 million viewers when it beat the all-time champions of the US game show Jeopardy! To do so, it navigated the complexities of human speech, churned through 200 million pages of unstructured data in less than 3 seconds, and delivered a confidence-based response, all while learning and getting smarter with each outcome.
But as impressive as this accomplishment was, it was only the beginning. IBM is now working with leading organizations across industries to put Watson to work.