IBM officials accept the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize at a ceremony in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, on May 7, 2019. (At center) Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, Vice President, Europe and Director, IBM Research Zurich, and Dr. John E. Kelly III, Executive Vice President, IBM. Photo courtesy of IBM

Armonk, N.Y., USA - May 08, 2019

Switzerland’s Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute has awarded IBM Watson the 13th Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize in recognition of the crucial role artificial intelligence will play in helping humanity address some of the world’s greatest challenges.

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Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize It is fifty years since the members of the Migros Community gifted the sum of 200,000 Swiss francs to its founder, Gottlieb Duttweiler, to mark his 70th birthday on 15 August 1958. Watson is the world’s most powerful computing platform in the field of artificial intelligence. Developed by IBM, it became more widely known in 2011 on winning the US television quiz show “Jeopardy!”. Nowadays, Watson performs invaluable services, notably in the fields of healthcare, transportation, retail and more. Photo courtesy of GDP

John E. Kelly III, IBM’s Executive Vice President, accepted the award on behalf of IBM during a special ceremony on May 7 in Rüschlikon.

“IBM believes the promise of technology is to empower people to do good, access new opportunities and make the world better, safer and smarter - for the many, not just the few,” Dr. Kelly said in accepting the award.

MIT and IBM form New AI Research Lab. MIT President, Dr. L Rafael Reif (on left) and IBM Senior Vice President, Cognitive Solutions and Research, Dr. John Kelly III (on right), reach a 10-year, USD240 million agreement to establish the MIT and IBM Watson AI Lab where fundamental joint research in AI hardware and software will be conducted to propel scientific breakthroughs that will unlock the potential of AI in industries, such as healthcare and cybersecurity. Photo courtesy of IBM

“With artificial intelligence we are at an inflection point; it’s not just another continuum of another technology moving forward,” Dr. Kelly added.
“We’re in a new era of computing, and we’re transitioning to technologies and machines that learn on their own and computing that does not require programming.”

CIMON Demonstrates Its Assistance Capabilities on the ISS. German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst instructs CIMON, an AI-enabled astronaut assistant, aboard the International Space Station. Two cameras allow CIMON to perform facial recognition, while five other cameras are used for orientation and video documentation. Photo courtesy of IBM / DLR

Watson made its public debut in February 2011, grabbing international headlines by defeating a pair of Jeopardy! champions.

To achieve this accomplishment, the team developing Watson had to overcome many challenges.

In case report, Watson cut time for genomic data interpretation. In his lab at The Rockefeller University, Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., reviews findings from a study that he led with the New York Genome Center and IBM, which illustrated the potential of Watson for Genomics to analyze complex genomic data from state-of-the-art DNA sequencing of whole genomes. Photo courtesy of IBM / Epic Creative

Among the most vexing: The AI needed to respond quickly to questions posed in natural language, but only if it was confident enough to answer.

Natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and deep analytics all needed to happen in time for Watson to buzz in ahead of its opponents.

Luftansa and IBM – Mobile Photo courtesy of IBM

Going forward, IBM’s broader goal for Watson has been to create a new generation of technology that could find answers in unstructured data more effectively than standard search technology – and do it in a way in which humans and machines work together to solve difficult problems.

Luftansa and IBM – Mobile Photo courtesy of IBM

“Our future depends on how humans and machines work together,” says David Bosshart, CEO of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.

In 2014, Watson achieved another milestone when IBM brought AI for business into the mainstream by introducing an enterprise version of the technology.

WatsonAd-BestWestern-Web Best Western Hotels & Resorts and IBM Introduce AI-powered Ad to Help Consumers Personalize Vacation Planning. Photo courtesy of IBM

Today, IBM Watson is the most open and trusted AI for business, available to run on any environment - on premise, and in private and public clouds.

Businesses can apply Watson to data wherever it is hosted and infuse AI into their applications, regardless of where they reside.

IBM Data Science Elite Team Some of the members of IBM's new Data Science Elite Team: (L-R) Annamaria Balazs, Umit Cakmak, Seth Dobrin, Susara van den Heever, Wendy Won, and Siva Anne. Photo courtesy of IBM / Mike Webb

During the award ceremony, Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, Vice President, Europe and Director, IBM Research – Zurich, shared with the audience of more than 350 honored guests what IBM intends to do with the prize’s 100,000 Swiss Francs.

In mid-April, and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, our group at IBM Guadalajara conducted the world’s largest AI software development class ever held, with 775 participants – shattering the previous record of 586 set in Spain in 2018. Students participating in IBM’s AI Software Development Class in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 2019. Photo courtesy of IBM

“This prestigious prize money will sponsor four interns from Armenia, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda, who will collaborate with IBM Researchers on AI for social good projects,” Dr. Curioni said.
“More specifically, they will focus on the application of AI-based skin cancer diagnosis and the development of benchmarking datasets to evaluate trust and fairness of AI models.”

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