IBM`s Watson to Help in Fight Against Cancer

In taking on its new role, Watson gained quite an education: it took in data from 1,500 lung cancer cases from Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital and assimilated more than two million pages of text from 42 medical journals. Its capability to analyze natural language, put most memorably on display during its stint on Jeopardy, allows it to answer questions by looking in its vast data set for patterns and relationships. By examining the information in its data set - far more than any single human can integrate - Watson may find connections in answer to a question that might otherwise be missed. S...