IBM Wants to Put a Watson in Your Pocket

The Jeopardy! computer could answer health and finance queries

Watson’s IBM servers can analyze documents, websites, and books at a rate of 66 million pages a second

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By Sarah Frier

September 14, 2012 at 11:02 AM UTC

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This article is part of the September 17, 2012 issue of businessweek.

IBM Wants to Put a Watson in Your Pocket — Illustration by Peter Arkle

IBM researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show Jeopardy! Now they’re trying to figure out how to get that brainpower into your pocket.