How Santa Claus Uses Artificial Intelligence

Two weeks back, my IBM team helped organize "Take Your Child To Work Day", a day for encouraging children to learn more about the respective careers and companies of their parents. At IBM, we had a unique challenge: explaining the world of IBM Watson. Watson, IBM's prolific computer system that uses natural language, hypothesis generation, and evidence-based learning capabilities to strengthen decision support, remains one of the technology industry's most exciting and complicated applications. With its own business group within IBM as of 2014 and an announced 10 billion in revenue over the next ten years, Watson has powered IBM's brand forward as a force to compete with in the cognitive era. From healthcare to education, Watson is looking to catalyze the way we make decisions everyday.