Watson goes to Asia as hospitals use supercomputer for cancer treatment

Watson for Oncology analyzes patient medical records, along with millions of pages of articles and textbooks, to make treatment recommendations. In 2011, a supercomputer won 1 million on Jeopardy! In 2016, that same supercomputer is tackling a challenge quantified not in millions of dollars but in millions of cancer patients. The goal is to use Watson's natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient's records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is drastically expanding its reach -- from one hospital in Thailand to six in India and a planned 21 more in China.