Technology stalwart IBM made headlines nearly 20 years ago with "Deep Blue" software that beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov at game, and more recently with "Watson" artificial intelligence that triumphedover top human pla ers in a Jeopardy television game show.
IBM has put Watson to work making business systems and services smarter with data and cus omers. Thousands of people are expected to attend a World of Watson conference later this month in Las Vegas.