In the last decade, the availability of massive amounts of new data, and the development of new technologies, has given rise to a new class of computing systems. These "Cognitive Systems" learn from data and interact naturally with us to perform complex tasks better than either humans or machines can do by them- selves. In essence, cognitive systems help us penetrate the complexity of big data and enable each of us to perform like the best. The first Watson system, as demonstrated by the Jeopardy! exhibition match, was capable of answering complex factoid questions as effectively as the world's champions. Follow-on systems perform other tasks, such as discovery, reasoning, and multi-modal understanding, in a variety of domains, such as healthcare, insurance education. We believe such Cognitive systems will transform every industry and our everyday life for the better. In this talk, I will give an overview of the applications and underlying capa- bilities of cognitive systems. Guruduth S. Banavar Vice President, Cognitive Computing Thomas J. Watson Research Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing scsDistinguishedLECTURE thurs 2 October 2014 refreshments 3:15pm • lecture 3:30pm • rashid auditorium GHC 4401 Dr. Guruduth Banavar currently leads a worldwide team at IBM Research, responsible for creating the next generation of cognitive systems in the Watson family. Previously, Guru and his team worked across IBM's businesses to co-innovate with clients, by applying advanced technologies to solve tough business problems across the spectrum of industry verticals, such as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Commerce & Financial Services, and Energy & Natural Resources. As CTO of IBM’s Global Public Sector business, Guru focused on the Smarter Cities initiative, and led strategic engagements around the globe to improve public safety, transportation, and other city services that make cities more livable and sustainable. An example of his work is the City Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro, which coordinates day-to-day as well as emergency operations in support of planning and service management across thirty agencies within that city. Guru also served on NY Governor Cuomo’s commission for improving New York State’s resilience to natural disasters after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Earlier, Guru was the Director of IBM Research in India, which he helped establish as a pre-eminent center for Services Research and Mobile Computing. There, he and his team received a National Innova- tion Award by the President of India in 2009 for the Spoken Web proj- ect. His early work was on distributed systems and programming models at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in New York, which he joined in 1995 after his PhD in Computer Science. Guru's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other international media. Guru is an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and has served on the boards of IBM’s Industry Academy and those of client and academic institutions.

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Guruduth S. Banavar Vice President, Cognitive Computing Thomas J. Watson Research

Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing

scsDistinguishedLECTUREthurs 2 October 2014

refreshments 3:15pm • lecture 3:30pm • rashid auditorium GHC 4401

Dr. Guruduth Banavar currently leads a worldwide team at IBM Research, responsible for creating the next generation of cognitive systems in the Watson family. Previously, Guru and his team worked across IBM's businesses to co-innovate with clients, by applying advanced technologies to solve tough business problems across the spectrum of industry verticals, such as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Commerce & Financial Services, and Energy & Natural Resources. As CTO of IBM’s Global Public Sector business, Guru focused on the Smarter Cities initiative, and led strategic engagements around the globe to improve public safety, transportation, and other city services that make cities more livable and sustainable. An example of his work is the City Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro, which coordinates day-to-day as well as emergency operations in support of planning and service management across thirty agencies within that city. Guru also served on NY Governor Cuomo’s commission for improving New York State’s resilience to natural disasters after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.Earlier, Guru was the Director of IBM Research in India, which he helped establish as a pre-eminent center for Services Research and Mobile Computing. There, he and his team received a National Innova-tion Award by the President of India in 2009 for the Spoken Web proj-ect. His early work was on distributed systems and programming models at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in New York, which he joined in 1995 after his PhD in Computer Science. Guru's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other international media. Guru is an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and has served on the boards of IBM’s Industry Academy and those of client and academic institutions.