Cancer is responsible for one in six deaths around the world, and each year there are more than 14 million new cancer cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. As healthcare providers seek to enable data-driven, evidence-based cancer care, an explosion of medical information has created both challenges and opportunities to help improve quality of care. Some 50,000 oncology research papers are published each year, according to PubMed, and by 2020 medical information is projected to double every 73 days – outpacing the ability of human beings to keep up with the proliferation of medical knowledge. In this environment, Swedish oncology IT vendor Elekta is collaborating with artificial intelligence kingpin IBM Watson Health to offer Watson for Oncology as part of Elekta's cancer care systems. Elekta will market Watson for Oncology as an AI-based clinical decision support system paired within Elekta's digital cancer care systems, including its MOSAIQ Oncology Information System.

Radiation oncology vendor Elekta has formed a new partnership with IBM Watson Health to offer the Watson for Oncology artificial intelligence (AI) platform along with its offerings for cancer care. Developed by IBM in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Watson for Oncology is designed to summarize a patient's key medical attributes and provide information to oncologists to help them deliver treatment options based on training from the Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologists, according to Elekta. The software also ranks treatment options, linking to peer-reviewed studies that have been curated by Memorial Sloan Kettering. In addition, Watson for Oncology provides a large corpus of medical literature -- more than 300 medical journals, over 200 textbooks, and nearly 15 million of pages of text -- to offer insight into different treatment options, Elekta said. Beginning in early 2018, Elekta will sell Watson for Oncology as a clinical decision-support application paired within its cancer-care software, including the Mosaiq oncology information system.

When I heard the 60th annual Grammy Awards show was going to feature artificial intelligence, I immediately thought "this is a marketing ploy." But then I found out IBM's Watson was the AI in question. Watson, you see, doesn't have a problem rolling up its non-existent sleeves and doing some good old fashioned hard work. Don't expect a silly robot rolling around doing a human impersonation on the red carpet, IBM's machines show up to solve problems and optimize workflows. And while that isn't very sexy – hard work seldom is – it's incredibly important.

It's award season folks, which means that anyone who loves the addictive mix of celebrities, fashion, and the red carpet will be looking forward to getting their daily fix. Who cares who won the award, most of us just need to know who rocked it best in the Oscar de la Renta or Calvin Klein dress and this is where IBM's Watson could step in. Partnering up with Recording Academy, IBM is bringing artificial intelligence to the red carpet. Taking up the role of fashion police, Watson will be showcasing an innate ability to judge the red carpet outfits using an artificial intelligence platform. This will take place at the Grammys on Sunday night, 28th January 2018.

After winning Jeopardy and designing cancer-treatment plans, IBM Watson is now strutting off to the red carpet of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. The tech giant's versatile AI system will be curating and distributing award-show content and images of everyone's favorite music stars in real time, straight from the red carpet to people's social media feeds. IBM and the Recording Academy announced their partnership to use the Watson Media Suite at the Grammys today. Want to quickly see who has the coolest looks on the red carpet? Want to gain AI-generated insights into the "emotional tone" of songs by this year's nominees?

Several leaders from the FAIR group, along with the head of Facebook's Applied Machine Learning Group, will report to Pesenti, who in turn will report to Facebook's CTO, Mike Schroepfer, the spokesman said. Facebook will accelerate its growth in AI under Pesenti, the spokesman said. The FAIR group has more than 130 people around the world. In addition to better accommodating for growth, the changes should also help assist in the transfer of technology from the FAIR group to the AML group, the spokesman said. In September Facebook announced the opening of an AI lab in Montreal, and earlier this week the company said it would double the size of its AI lab in Paris.

Addressing human needs must be top priorities to design, develop and implement successful AI technology. With a rising amount of media attention and a sevenfold increase of investment, artificial intelligence (AI) is on the agenda of businesses in all industries, who are identifying the massive potential with this kind of technology. Design sits at the forefront of the drive to develop innovative everyday AI solutions that people find intuitive and easy to use. To pave the way for successful AI implementation, companies must consider creating experiences with AI that are less artificial and more intelligent, and most importantly, those that make AI more human-shaped. This is where design comes in. Designers possess the skills to create a world where everything is designed around real human needs.

Summary: IBM's Watson now to do your taxes at H&R Block? This is a good opportunity to explore the differences between Question Answering Machines (Watson) and Expert Systems. If you were paying attention during the Super Bowl you saw something unprecedented, an advertisement aimed at data scientists. It was the H&R Block announcement that it was rolling out IBM's Watson to all 80,000 of its tax preparers. So far we've seen Watson deployed primarily on more complex and obscure data like chemical reactions, cancer diagnoses, and environmental engineering.

Some say that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically change healthcare in the future. But that prediction overlooks an important detail: AI is already significantly changing healthcare. IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health general manager Deborah DiSanzo spoke at the annual J. P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday. She provided an update on the progress that IBM Watson, the AI system famous for beating Jeopardy! DiSanzo highlighted four areas where AI is making a big difference today.

Some say that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically change healthcare in the future. But that prediction overlooks an important detail: AI is already significantly changing healthcare. IBM (NYSE:IBM) Watson Health general manager Deborah DiSanzo spoke at the annual J. P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday. She provided an update on the progress that IBM Watson, the AI system famous for beating Jeopardy! DiSanzo highlighted four areas where AI is making a big difference today.