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• Woodside reveals quantum computing partnership with IBM

  ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside has become the first commercial organisation in Australia to join the IBM Q Network, which is focused on the development and use of quantum computing.

• IBM to move Watson Health to a hybrid cloud

  IBM is moving Watson Cognitive Health to the hybrid cloud to offer greater access to a larger pool of payer and health record information for analytics.

• Miner Newcrest digs Watson Explorer for finding answers buried in 10M documents

  Australian miner Newcrest, one of the largest gold mining companies in the world, has announced it has rolled out IBM’s ‘cognitive exploration and content analysis platform’ Watson Explorer.

• Jetstar's chatbot to travellers' rescue after Mount Agung eruption

  ​When Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted in November – spewing a cloud of ash nearly four kilometres into the air – thousands of residents fled the area, fearing for their lives.

• CBA launches new AI chatbot

  Commonwealth Bank on Friday unveiled a chatbot that it says uses artificial intelligence to assist customers with more than 200 banking tasks.

• ​UBank recruits IBM’s Watson for chatbot

  UBank has used IBM’s Watson technology to build what it claims is Australia’s first virtual assistant to help potential home buyers and refinancers complete their online home loan applications.

• ANZ CIO: 'We want to be a more open bank'

  “I want the inside of ANZ to look like the outside world from a technology perspective,” says CIO Scott Collary

• ​Universities to help Watson tackle cybercrime

  IBM is recruiting eight US universities to help train Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of its cognitive technology.
  

• IBM's Watson is going to cybersecurity school

  The result will be a cloud service called Watson for Cyber Security that's designed to provide insights into emerging threats as well as recommendations on how to stop them.

• ​Disability system to tap IBM’s Watson

  Government agencies responsible for deploying the technology that will drive the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will soon gain access to the cognitive computing capabilities of IBM’s Watson.
  

• Highlights from the 2015 state iAwards

  The state iAwards were announced over the last couple of months, with a wide range of new apps and tools coming out, from operations optimisation tools and avatars to energy harvesting technology.

• Woodside to tap into IBM’s Watson

  Oil and gas company, Woodside has joined a growing list of Australian organisations tapping into the IBM Watson supercomputer.
  

• Cognitive computing's powerful potential

  Cognitive computing is being touted as the next technology transformation and breakthrough in how to process growing reams of unstructured and ambiguous data sets.

• University of Texas team hooks $100K in IBM Watson app contest

  A team of students from the University of Texas at Austin is being awarded $100,000 in seed funding for an app based on <a href="http://www.ibmwatson.com%20">IBM's Watson technology</a> that's designed to give Texas citizens easier access to social services. 

• Deakin University students to get answers using IBM’s Watson

  Deakin University will use IBM's Watson system to transform the way 50,000 students get advice and answers to questions.