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How might IBM's "Watson" do as a sentecing judge (or a law clerk)?

By Douglas A. Berman

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The provocative question in the title of this post is inspired in part by all the discussion of evidence-based sentencing decision-making during the great Toledo sentencing symposium and also by this information technology article headlined "IBM, Nuance to Tune Watson Supercomputer for Use in Health Care." First, here is part of the "Dr. Watson" discussion: IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses. IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).

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