Accelerating Discovery

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Preface

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  ,  spent more than a decade doing

unstructured data mining of one form or another, in domains

spanning helpdesk problem tickets, social media, and patents, I thought

I fully understood the potential range of problems and likely areas of

applicability of this mature technology. en, something happened that

completely changed how I thought about what I was doing and what its

potential really was.

e change in my outlook began with the Watson Jeopardy challenge.

Seeing a computer learn from text to play a game I had thought was far

beyond the capabilities of any articial intelligence opened my eyes to new

possibil ...