SKC&C held AI'Aibril' Healthcare Seminar with doctors at SK U-tower SKC&C Park Jung-ho CEO invited medical doctors of large-scale domestic hospital to discuss AI'AIbril' healthcare seminar on Nov. 4 at the SK U-tower in Bundang, Seongnam city . The seminar was organized to explore ways to create an eco-friendly environment in the domestic artificial intelligence healthcare industry, which grows with domestic hospitals, by opening'the path of innovation of advisory service treating a disease using Abril'. The seminar will include major Korean hospitals such as Seoul National University Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul Asan Medical Center and Seoul Samsung Hospital, as well as partners in the SKC& C Lee Ki-yeol executive director of digital / financial division of SK C&C. and IBM Watson Todd Kalyniuk include about 30 doctors and medical information staff attended. In the greetings, executive director Lee received a great response from attendees by introducing the "Aibril" advisory service for various diseases to be introduced. Attendees at the hospital said that Aibril can analyze hundreds of millions of pages of medical information, including medical papers, hundreds of medical journals and textbooks, poured tens of thousands of each year by disease When a doctor asks his questions, "Aibril" responded well to the doctor's understanding of the intent of the question and to communicate in real-time with the doctor in a conversational way. In fact, IBM Watson Todd Kalyniuk, a global healthcare partner, introduced the cancer treatment advisory solution'Watson for Oncology' to understand the complex questions presented in natural language and suggest evidence-based answers do search for 15 million pages of vast amounts of medical information and offer 2-3 treatment options in a matter of seconds.

South Korean IT solution provider SK C&C has announced a target of 2.5 trillion won ( 2.1 billion) in annual revenue by 2020 by developing new businesses based on artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and smart factories. The South Korean IT services corporation said last Thursday it will broaden the IT services it delivers including reprocessing datasets using big data and AI analytics tools, according to the company's chief technology officer and the man in charge of its R&D centre. "The emergence of new technology will cause a disruptive change and a digital transformation across all the industries. SK Holdings C&C will increase its partners' competitiveness and profit by providing top-tier ICT technology," said Lee Ho-soo, SK C&C's chief technology officer. "SK Holdings C&C will transform into a data service company to accelerate digital transformation which provides sophisticated convergence ICT service combining cloud, big data, AI, and smart factory," he added.

SK Holdings C&C, the information technology services unit of SK Group, has named a Watson AI service brand as "Aibril" and put it on the market on May 11. Aibril is a compound word of "artificial intelligence (AI)" and "brilliant," meaning our knowledge continues to thrive and become brilliant AI. It shows SK Holdings C&C's will to directly communicate with human, analyze massive data and help make the best decision by providing excellent information and alternatives. Running the Watson cloud platform at SK C&C's cloud center in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, the Aibril allows startup businesses and IT developers to develop smartphone applications using the Watson application program interface (API). In a bid to commercialize the Aibril AI service early next year, SK Holdings C&C and IBM are accelerating training IBM's Watson on Korea language.