Topic 11 Materials: Employment

In the article for this week’s topic of discussion, Wimbledon was mentioned in the article and how they
used IBM’s Watson AI for highlights, analytics, and helping tennis fans. “Fred”, a voice activated
digital assistant will help the fans attending at Wimbledon to have a better experience. For instance they
can ask directions for the nearest strawberry stand, buy a Wimbledon towel or other merchandise, or
which match is occurring at the moment. Fred can also provide services by providing guests
instructions, and it is powered by Watson’s natural language processing ability.
IBM has teamed up with ALETC to help analyze players statistics. They have created a new metric
called competitive margin, which is the difference between the opposing players ratios of forced to
unforced errors. Watson and IBM $18 billion investment for advance technology has faced years of
slum in earnings and sales. They are now pitching Watson as a long-term growth driver and a connector
across all services and software for related projects.
The AELTC displays a system called Slam Tracker with Cognitive Keys to the mathc