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Triva: IBM Watson uses Prolog for its reasoning.
by frik 11y ago
Triva: IBM Watson uses Prolog for its reasoning.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoShows it's still useful for sure. But, Watson uses a lot of techniques for it's operation with several languages integrated together w/ Prolog just one. And it does it on this hardware: "Watson employs a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers, each of which uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight core processor, with four threads per core. In total, the system has 2,880 POWER7 processor threads and 16 terabytes of RAM." (Wikipedia) My house might burn down haha. It would be interesting to know a complex, useful, performant application coded entirely in PROLOG that wasn't a Visual Prolog IDE or something. ;) A list of those with what advantages and headaches Prolog gave the developers would be a nice start.