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Re: [ontolog-forum] Watson going mass market - jobs for ontologists

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From: Ron Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:33:56 -0500
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I would suspect that there will not be a lot of open source applications 
except in areas funded by governments and produced by clusters of 
academics (research support systems).    (01)

The big need will be in the commercial area where the application will 
be regarded as a competitive advantage not to be shared with anyone.    (02)

Ron    (03)


On 21/11/2013 5:09 PM, Jack Park wrote:
> That's certainly one lens on this context.
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>wrote:
>> On 11/21/13 4:49 PM, Jack Park wrote:
>>> So, let me ask this:
>>> what about open source Watson-like platforms?
>>
>> Watson is going to expose Web Services using RESTful interaction patterns.
>> The issue of "Open Source" is one that's going to be more relevant to the
>> services built atop and around what Watson exposes.
>>
>>
>> Kingsley
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>>> <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/13 3:37 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-14/ibm-to-offer-jeopardy-winner-watson-as-cloud-app-tool.html
>>>> A more superficial look at Watson but with examples.
>>>>
>>>> Will this make ontology a more mainstream application development
>>>> technology?
>>>>
>>>> Yes!
>>>>
>>>>> Job opportunities?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kingsley
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21/11/2013 3:07 PM, Jack Park wrote:
>>>>>> This article
>>>>>> http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/42451.wss
>>>>>> refers to:
>>>>>> IBM Watson Developers Cloud
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It will be interesting to see links to that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ron Wheeler
>>>>>> <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IBM is ready to push Watson out to the application development
>>>>>> community.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this going to be the big breakthrough that makes ontology a big
>>>>>> deal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it going to create a demand for ontologists?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>
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Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102    (04)


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