Cloud Computing: Startup OnlyBoth turns IBM’s Watson on its head
May 22, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Bob Brown.
OnlyBoth, a Pittsburgh startup whose first offering is an app that generates often surprising insights about U.S. colleges and universities, has seriously been a long time coming. Co-founder Raul Valdes-Perez says the cloud-based software at the heart of his new business stems from work begun in 1998 and funded via a National Science Foundation grant, but that the “niche finding” technology was shelved when a more immediate business opportunity presented itself in the form of Vivisimo. Valdes-Perez co-founded that clustering-powered search company at Carnegie Mellon University and sold it to IBM in 2012 (he was chairman of Vivisimo at the time, so never wound up working for IBM).
CEO Valdes-Perez describes the self-funded OnlyBoth as taking sort of a reverse approach to IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology, which can make sense out of unstructured information, as was on display during its famous Jeopardy! game show performance in 2011 (Hear Valdes-Perez compare the technologies below or here)…
OnlyBoth algorithms sort through structured big data — initially on 3,122 U.S. colleges and universities described by 190 attributes – and spit out fun facts and comparisons in the form of perfect English sentences. The company’s motto: “A sentence is worth 1,000 data”…
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