Wikibon trip report from IBM's Watson developer conference: Keep it simple, geniuses

IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty (above) announced that its cognitive computing services already reach 200 million people worldwide and would reach 1 billion by the end of 2017. Healthcare and consumers are proving especially ripe targets for Watson. IBM will continue to engage data scientists, but it indicated that increasingly it will turn its attention to reaching developers. It aims to reach those developers by making Watson's machine learning tools and services as easy-to-use and cost-effective as renting cloud virtual machines. IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty (above) announced that its cognitive computing services already reach 200 million people worldwide and would reach 1 billion by the end of 2017.