Questions for the Opening Vignette 1. What is Watson? What is special about it? What technologies were used in building Watson(both hardware and software)? 3. What are the innovative characteristics of DeepQA architecture that made Watson superior? 4. Why did IBM spend all that time and money to build Watson? Where is the Rol? Copynight@ 2014 Pearson Education, Inc Slide 5-5Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 5- 5 Questions for the Opening Vignette 1. What is Watson? What is special about it? 2. What technologies were used in building Watson (both hardware and software)? 3. What are the innovative characteristics of DeepQA architecture that made Watson superior? 4. Why did IBM spend all that time and money to build Watson? Where is the ROI?