to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine. to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
Part of the Business intelligence - business analytics glossary: Watson is an IBM supercomputer that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a âquestion answeringâ machine. The supercomputer is named for IBMâs founder, Thomas J. Watson. The Watson supercomputer processes at a rate of 80 teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second).
IBM has just announced that no less than eight Universities have contributed to the development of the question answering (QA) technology behind the Watson computing system, which will compete against humans on the quiz show, Jeopardy!, airing between February 14 and 16 of 2011.