IBM's Watson Is The New Computer Brain Of NASA's Complex Aerospace Research

NASA is collaborating with IBM to put its Watson computer system to work on complex aerospace research. IBM will help NASA in-flight decision making and will store data for the aerospace exploration. It was more than 60 years that the first IBM computing machines were set up in the halls of NASA's Langley Research Center.

IBM will be monitoring huge volumes of data that will help researchers to understand the unstructured text. According to Chris Codella that working in research development will help to draw connections to the data for better understanding in aerospace exploration. Codella is one of the IBM Distinguished Engineers who is working on Watson.

IBM's Watson computer system has a cognitive computing which focuses connections in examining huge volumes of data. This system will help analyze connections with highly relevant answers with the fields of medical and scientific research documents. It will make potential diagnoses and invent things which help formulate personality line up traits through social media contents.

"It's going after that tidbit of information that might be so highly relevant, that they might not have been aware of in their own experience, that might make the difference in their decision process," Codella said. The next stage of the research will begin in 2017. A real flight scenario will be able to help researchers analyze the spacecraft, the equipment failure, and weather conditions.

Watson computer system will respond to questions asked in natural language. Unlike to a search engine, this computer system will muddle more results and information to questions that it is asked in human terms. This computer system wills ranks most relevant passages in the database so that researchers will analyze the complex aerospace research. The nicest thing about the IBM's Watson is, it doesn't have limitation.

Researchers will be able to scrutinize astronauts' in-flight illnesses and offer suggestions for treatment. On the other hand, IBM will confer the possibility of Watson directing a rover on Mars. The computational power of Moore's Law will require miniaturization of computer components for aerospace exploration.