May 17, 2016

IBM’s Chief Watson Security Architect Jeb Linton demonstrating to University of Maryland Baltimore County student Lisa Mathews how to teach IBM’s Watson the language of security (Photo courtesy Mitro Hood/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

IBM announced Watson for Cyber ​​Security, a new version of its cognitive computing system specializing in the field of information security. The company will partner with eight universities to expand the knowledge Watson was trained with in this field.

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Pennsylvania State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; New York University; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); the University of New Brunswick; the University of Ottawa and the University of Waterloo are the universities that will expand the Watson Cyber ​​Security system training. Like the other versions of Watson, this one is designed on the IBM Cloud platform so it can work simultaneously with all of them.