IBM Watson's Rob High on How Artificial Intelligence Will Amplify Our Creativity

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IBM's Watson is to expand the computer's cognitive ability to enable more meaningful and efficient interactions in areas ranging from businesses, culinary experiments to clinical care.

Rob High, CTO of Watson Solutions illustrates the company's ultimate mission of 'amplifying human creativity' in a recent talk at the Seoul Digital Forum. High speaks of how the Watson development team is focused on building the systems' natural language processing capabilities.

"The future of computing is going to be dominated by the era of cognitive computing, for the purposes of amplifying our own creativity."

"Essentially what we are doing is beginning the task of assimilating human cognition so that computers can understand what we mean, and our ideas and be able to answer questions that we might form," High says.

IBM calls this form of computing, cognitive computing.

High talks about how the system was used to create the cognitive cookbook, where Watson finds some very interesting combinations of flavors like the Swiss-Thai Asparagus Quiche, or pairing cherries with mushrooms.

According to High, when we look back at the present era of computing in 20 years, we will realize that this is a turning point.  "The future of computing is going to be dominated by the era of cognitive computing, for the purposes of amplifying our own creativity."  He says cognitive computing will be a force-multiplier for our creativity.

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High is an IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Watson Solutions, IBM Software Group. He has overall responsibility to drive Watson Solutions technical strategy and thought leadership. As a key member of the Watson Solutions Leadership team, he works collaboratively with the Watson engineering, research, and development teams across IBM.

Prior to joining the Watson Solutions team, Rob was chief architect for the SOA Foundation and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. High championed an open industry architectural definition of the principles of business and IT alignment enabled by SOA and Business Process Optimization, as well as ensuring IBM's software and services portfolio is architecturally grounded to enable for efficient SOA-based solutions. This responsibility extended across the IBM software portfolio, including WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, Lotus, and Information Management offerings.

High has 37 years of programming experience and has worked with distributed, object-oriented, component-based transaction monitors for the last 26 years, including SOMObject Server, Component Broker, and the WebSphere Application Server. Rob previously served as chief architect for the WebSphere foundation with architectural responsibility for the WebSphere Application Server and the related products integrated on that core runtime.

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SOURCE  SBS Seoul Digital Forum

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