Supercomuter Applied to Intelligence Problems

IBM’s cognitive computer system, Watson, which once beat Jeopardy’s top human players, can assist in situations specific to defense and intelligence communities, product officials said.

Watson can aid intelligence experts by creating a faster, more efficient way to sort through open-source data from a variety of areas ranging from research reports to Twitter feeds, said Rick Behrens, associate partner for Watson National Security Systems, at the GEOINT symposium in Washington, D.C. 

“Watson assists the [intelligence] expert by enabling them to get through all that content much more quickly than they would be able to do otherwise,” Behrens noted. The system narrows a search down to “specific” answers so analysts don’t have to search through multiple pages.

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