Watson is of little use beyond the game show's set. But some of the techniques that helped the computer defeat two human Jeopardy champions in February are showing promise in a new context: the hospital. Researchers in Canada are using analytics like that which helped the computer decipher the language of clues to provide an early warning when babies in an intensive care unit acquire a hospital-borne infection.
As you would expect, babies in an ICU are surrounded by equipment that tracks their vital signs, but much of that data is wasted, says Carolyn McGregor, a researcher at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. "They produce constant streams of data," she says, "but that information is often distilled down to a (nurse's) spot reading every 60 minutes, written on paper."
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Author: Tom Simonite
