OTTAWA — Forget Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Residents of the nation’s capital have a reason to cheer for Watson, the multi-million machine that is attempting to beat two of Jeopardy’s greatest ...

IBM's Watson computer -- best known for having competed successfully with human players in the TV quiz game Jeopardy -- is building its knowledge-base for its first 'serious' uses, in the medical ...

Say you’re an executive running an online marketing campaign for a new car, and you want to figure out which consumers in which parts of the country are likely to click on your ad. What if, instead of ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...

You might not have a personal chef in your kitchen, inventing innovative recipes and techniques every night. But IBM may have the next best thing: An artificially intelligent kitchen helper called ...