IBM's new Watson center integrates blockchain and artificial intelligence

Rage Review : IBM Watson supercomputer has leading cognitive computing capabilities, building a new type of cooperative relationship between people and computers. This week, the company integrated the technology with the latest blockchain technology to build blockchain applications in the Asia-Pacific market. More than 5,000 computer scientists gathered at the new Watson Center to participate in this development project. At the same time, the incubator is also the center of the company's IBM Garage - helping start-ups build distributed ledger applications. In February, IBM blockchain director John Wolpert announced that the company would invest heavily in blockchain exploration.

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This week, IBM opened a new incubator where more than 5,000 computer scientists will build rapid prototypes using blockchain and its commercial artificial intelligence tool Watson AI in the Asia-Pacific region.

The incubator, called the new Watson Centre, is located in Singapore’s Marina Bay and uses the company’s open standard tools to build blockchain applications; it is also home to the IBM Garage.

Randy Walker

Randy Walker, President and CEO of IBM Asia Pacific, described it this way:

“Watson and blockchain are two technologies that will rapidly change the way we live and work, and our clients in Asia Pacific are eager to be at the forefront of imagining and creating that future.”

IBM Garage is part of the company's Global Entrepreneur program launched in 2010 to help startups build distributed ledger applications using IBM cloud computing.

Go all-in on blockchain technology

The new Watson Center comes as IBM is actively exploring blockchain technology.

In 2015, IBM joined the Hyperledger project to build a cross-industry distributed ledger solution; earlier this year, IBM Chief Technology Officer Chris Ferris became the director of the project.

In a keynote speech in San Francisco in February, IBM blockchain chief John Wolpert announced that the company was going all-in on blockchain technology, and the following month the company began integrating blockchain and artificial intelligence.