How cognitive computing and cloud technology can improve our health and fitness

From medicine to athletics, IBM's cognitive, cloud-based technology is changing our understanding of the human body

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After wowing with its quick-fire answers to win legendary US TV quiz show Jeopardy, IBM's Watson supercomputer is now turning its huge cognitive capabilities to another puzzler – how to improve our health and fitness.

Specifically, Watson wants to help improve patient experience and make hospital stays less daunting, particularly for the young, and so IBM has teamed up with staff at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and the Science and Technology Facilities Council in a £315m, five-year bid to create the UK's first "cognitive hospital".

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