IBM’s New Watson Centre Merges Blockchain With AI

IBM’s New Watson Centre Merges Blockchain With AI

IBM today opened an incubator where 5,000 computer scientists will work to build rapid prototypes using the company’s blockchain and Watson AI tools for businesses in the Asian-Pacific region. Called the Watson Centre at Marina Bay in Singapore, the incubator will also house Singapore’s IBM Garage, which will specialize in building blockchain applications using the company’s Open Standards tools. IBM Asia Pacific’s chairman and CEO, Randy Walker, described the operation in a statement: "Watson and blockchain are two technologies that will rapidly change the way we live and work, and....


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