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).
Watson, the supercomputer that is now the world Jeopardy champion, basically went to med school after it won Jeopardy, MIT's Andrew McAfee, coauthor of The Second Machine Age, said recently in an interview with Smart Planet. Iâm convinced that if itâs not already the worldâs best diagnostician, it will be soon..