Category: Watson in the Wild

Get a head start on your apps with Application Starter Kits

by Zach Walchuk on February 23, 2016 in Watson in the Wild, Services, AlchemyAPI, Announcement

Check out our new Application Starter Kits: Full applications aimed at solving a few specific business problems, as well as instructions for extending the applications...

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Exciting updates for News Explorer

by Tim Stutts on January 4, 2016 in Watson in the Wild, AlchemyAPI, Announcement

We are pleased to release an updated version of News Explorer, an application that harnesses the power of Watson to help users navigate and explore...

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The 4 winning Watson apps at the TNW Hack Battle

by HayleyYudelman on November 24, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events, Services, Ecosystem, AlchemyAPI

At The Next Web (TNW) USA Hack Battle 2015, we provided Watson cognitive services to 100+ developers. Read about the 4 winners who used various...

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IBM Watson lands at Techcrunch Disrupt SF ‘15

by Lisa Kay Davis on September 22, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events

Held in San Francisco’s Pier 70, TC Disrupt drew hundreds of hackers, coders and designers from around the world to compete for various prizes and...

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IBM Watson powers new fitness app TRAIN ME

by Lisa Kay Davis on August 7, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Ecosystem

The global fitness trend continues to saturate markets with a variety of wearable fitness devices. The Fitbits and Jawbones of the industry allow those on-the-run...

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Presenting the News Explorer

by Mauro Martino on July 20, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, AlchemyAPI

The News Explorer application uses the Alchemy API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable...

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Watson + GBS Challenge, Chat with Developers (3 of 3)

by Zach Tomlinson on June 22, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events

In this final installment of our three part blog series covering the Watson + GBS Challenge we’re sharing the development experiences of three other winning...

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Watson + GBS Challenge, Chat with the Developers (2 of 3)

by Zach Tomlinson on June 17, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events

Part 2 of our Watson + GBS Challenge blog series shares the development experiences of two of the winning teams, and videos of their exciting...

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Watson + GBS Challenge, Winners Announced (1 of 3)

by Zach Tomlinson on June 16, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events

Over the past four months teams from IBM Global Business Services (GBS), Watson and Bluemix have participated in a challenge creating powerful cognitive applications. We...

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Hacking with Watson: A Brooklyn Success Story

by Zach Walchuk on May 21, 2015 in Watson in the Wild, Events

Last week, I spent two longs days in Brooklyn with over a hundred developers. I watched as ambitious ideas brought together teams and teams pulled...

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