I would imagine just the advancement in voice recognition would have some business value. Plus the legal mandates to digitize medical records maybe. Whatever it is, Watson is awesome
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> Sent: Tue Feb 15 16:04:10 2011 Subject: Watson I was just watching Jeopardy with Watson, IBM's 'thinking' computer. Quite amazing even though his occasional misses are comical. There may be a PTF available to fix that. I wonder what the business justification was for building it.