IBM Opens Watson to Developers
November 28, 2013
Exciting news is reported in the article titled Why IBM’s Watson is Huge for Developers on eWeek. IBM announced on November 14 that they will be opening up the supercomputer to developers, who are scrambling for the chance to work on the cognitive computing technology. General manager of ecosystems Sandy Carter clarified that there is a qualification process for developers, and there are short-term goals. IBM is aiming to grow Watson mainly in three areas (for now): health care, retail and transportation.
Steve Mills, an IBM senior vice-president, explained:
“”There is a fair amount of tooling that’s going to be required to make this thing more digestible,” Mills said. “We’ll probably go to a T-shirt-sized approach to Watson delivery in the future, where you get a small, medium and large kind of offering…They’ve done it. IBM will be launching the IBM Watson Developers Cloud, a cloud-hosted marketplace where application providers of all sizes and industries will be able to tap into resources for developing Watson-powered apps.”
For developers, this could mean a quicker and easier path into markets that they had no way to consider due to funding. Now their ideas will have a much better chance of coming to fruition. For quite some time, IBM has been containing Watson, but with this step forward the opportunities are endless. Meanwhile we are holding our breath for a demo.
Chelsea Kerwin, November 28, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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