Keen On… Anjul Bhambhri: How Human Can Watson Become? (TCTV)

Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur, writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is the author of the international hit “Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is Killing our Culture” which has been published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. As a pioneering Silicon Valley based Internet entrepreneur,... → Learn More

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

IBM’s Watson, a computer skilled in natural language exchange, appeared on Jeopardy in January. But who is behind Watson? Who is his boss?

Anjul Bhambhri is the VP of Big Data Products at IBM. And Watson, of course, is IBM’s biggest data product, both in the ambition and scope of the project. So if Watson does indeed have a boss, it is Bhambhri, one of the most powerful and successful female executives inside IBM.

So how human can Watson become, I asked Bhambri. And might our roles, one day, be reversed? Could Watson, I queried IBM’s VP of Big Data, eventually become our boss?

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Person: Anjul Bhambhri
Companies: IBM

Anjul Bhambhri is the Vice President of Big Data Products at IBM. She was previously the Director of IBM Optim application and data life cycle management tools. She is a seasoned professional with over twenty-two years in the database industry. Over this time, Anjul has held various engineering and management positions at IBM, Informix and Sybase. Prior to her assignment in tools, Anjul spearheaded the development of XML capabilities in IBM’s DB2 database server. She is a...

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