Information technology that helps doctors and patients make decisions has been around for a long time. Crude online tools like WebMD get millions of visitors a day. But Watson is a different beast. According to IBM, it can digest information and make recommendations much more quickly, and more intelligently, than perhaps any machine before it—processing up to 60 million pages of text per second, even when that text is in the form of plain old prose, or what scientists call "natural language. "
That’s no small thing, because something like 80 percent of all information is "unstructured. " In medicine, it consists of physician notes dictated into medical records, longwinded sentences published in academic journals, and raw numbers stored online by public health departments. At least in theory, Watson can make sense of it all. It can sit in on patient examinations, silently listening. And over time, it can learn and get better at figuring out
A. gave a presentation at an academic conference
B. works for the IBM Training Division
C. is a short person with a husky voice
D. expressed optimism for Watson
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