Watson gets IBM in health care (Digital Trends)

It didn't take long for demonstration of IBM the question answering system stunt Watson Jeopardy winning find some lenders: IBM announced an agreement with Nuance Communications to apply the technology Deep Question Answering of Watson in the healthcare field. The partnership of research will also address one of the main deficiencies that Watson demonstrated in Jeopardy, Watson analytical skills combined with voice recognition technology so that the system can understand what people say, rather than having to questions put to it as plain text.

"By combining our experience of Google analytics with the experience and technology from Nuance, we can transform the way healthcare professionals daily tasks, allowing them to work smarter, more efficiently," said IBM senior VP and Research Director Dr. John e. Kelly III, in a statement. "This initiative demonstrates how we intend to apply the features of Watson in new areas, such as health care with Nuance."

Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of medicine will work on the project. Nuance and IBM hope to have direct products based on technology poised to enter the market at 18-24 months. The project will also benefit from clinical language understanding Nuance solutions to improve the understanding of Watson medical vocabulary and terminology.

Interests of the healthcare industry Watson comes apparent capacity to process information quickly available in natural language — rather than deliberately coded for computing — and make quick connections, high level between key elements of information from disparate sources. The technology could be applied to help health professionals keep up with the vast amount of clinical and scientific research is published in the healthcare field every day; looking ahead, Watson technology could be applied to some of the questions that have been long expected for so-called "strong AI" systems such as drug interactions, and diagnosis in real time.

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Top 10 Twitter trends this week [CHART] (Mashable)

The first rule of Twitter trends: never underestimate the power of American Awards shows. While we have seen steady international sports, entertainment and beat out the cultural policy trends bigger than U.S. on Twitter, American broadcasts like Grammys last weekend will almost always be pie. Powered by surprise win of Esperanza Spalding as Best New Artist (a powerful sub-trend in itself), the Grammys were number one this week the Twitterverse.

Holidays always accumulate enough power in the trend to make the chart, and it's not a surprise to see the Valentines day pop in number two (Muslim observance of the birth of Muhammad, Maulid Nabi, will appear at number eight). In addition, consider the trends top entertainment last week, shuffle them around a bit and you have the most chart this week.

For a complete list of key trends, check the chart below, compiled by our friends at what the trend. Because this is a list of current events, games and hashtag memes were omitted from the graph.

You can check Twitter trends in our Top Twitter topic section and read more about this past trends of the week on what the trend of the past.

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James Franco, our greatest living actor joins Facebook and Twitter (Digital Trends)

There is finally a good reason to tweet: James Franco can read it. The actor oscar nomination has joined Facebook and Twitter. That's right, the living legend, the co-host of Academy Awards, the man himself, James Franco! Not familiar? He was Harry Osborn in Spider-Man movie.

Franco has been known to do whatever the hell he wants and his sudden and late entry social media means that her fans can finally know what he is up to at any time. Unlike many celebrities, Franco is a part of the whole party hangover and nonstop scene. In recent years, Franco started painting, joined General Hospital (soap operas) for a short time, he enrolled at NYU film school to learn to direct and members in Colombia to study writing fiction. Lately, is known for its interesting choice in film as well. Recently played Aron Ralston, a man who has been inpigliato in the canyon for hours 127 and appeared in various films like Pineapple Express, milk, date night, eat love pray and the Green Hornet. Also He'll play Oz imminent in a prequel to the wizard of Oz.

Although he didn't say anything in particular, face-melting yet, we are confident that his entry will mark a new beginning for both social networks. The actor has a following of approximately 125,000. Franco will host the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway on 27 February.

Smithsonian calls on public to choose more than one game artistic video games (Digital Trends)

The Smithsonian is recognized as an authority on art and historical relics from past eras, certainly. But not exactly known for his expertise on digital entertainment. That might be because the Smithsonian has enlisted the help of the public for the exhibition "The Art of Video Games" next year's game.

Players, or simply those who appreciate the art of video games, you can choose from a pool of 240 titles, released 20 console and cover four genres: action, adventure, target and combat/strategy. Voters may select up to 80 titles after registering on the website of the exhibition.

Of course, as processors have gotten faster and cheaper than disk space, game developers increasingly have infused gameplay with spectacular visual effects, such as movie. But this does not mean that the Smithsonian is going to neglect the humble origins of the game. The curators of exhibitions have decided to cover the entire history of the game Pac-Man 1981 46.583 s 2010 ° s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The pool of titles have been selected for their innovations in the design, aesthetics and graphical outputs.

Online voting will continue until 7 April and the results will be announced in May. The exhibition is expected to open in March 2012 and will be held at The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The exhibition should include stills, interviews with designers, as well as five playable games: Pac-Man, The Secret of Monkey Island, Super Mario Brothers, Myst, and World of Warcraft