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's initial plan was to apply Watson to extremely hard problems, announcing in early press releases moonshot projects to end cancer and accelerate the development of Africa. Some of the promises evaporated almost as soon as the ink on the press releases had dried.