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The article focuses on Watson, the artificial intelligence system computer hardware company IBM has launched. Topics discussed include Watson's capabilities, the developer platform called Ecosytem IBM created around Watson, and brief profiles of various Watson startups that have access to IBM business and technology advisers through the Ecosystem including Pathway Genomics in San Diego, California, LifeLearn in Guelph, Ontario, and SparkCognition in Austin, Texas.

The article details how cybersecurity fits into the portfolio of computer services company IBM, as explained by IBM Vice-President (VP) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Sridhar Muppidi. Topics discussed are the tasks of IBM in understanding threats and the risks they present to organizations, IBM's spending on artificial intelligence (AI) research and its security.

IBM Corp. is working on new search technology that may eventually give Google Inc. a run for its money, at least in the corporate space. Using a combination of artificial intelligence techniques, the company's Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is tackling the problem of understanding unstructured data. UIMA uses what IBM Corp. officials call a "combination hypothesis" to deliver knowledge and understanding to bulk amounts of unstructured data. IBM Corp. has developed three systems based on UIMA. The first, internally called Jedi, is a pure Java version of the framework, another is a C++ version. A third, which is the most likely to go into broader use and into products in some form, is called Web Fountain and uses a Web services approach. Web Fountain also features natural language functionality, which allows it to find correlated subjects.