A new computer science course offered this fall at Carnegie Mellon University will give students unprecedented access to IBM’s Watson cognitive technology as they develop mobile applications for the system, which famously beat Jeopardy! champions in a 2011 on-air showdown. The IBM Watson Group is working with Carnegie Mellon and six other universities to offer  cognitive computing courses this fall that will give students the technical knowledge and hands-on experience they need to create new applications for Watson. “The home run we’re looking for is to add our vision to IBM’s technology to create an application that is useful and worthy of being spun off as a product,” said Eric Nyberg, a professor in CMU’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) and a leading researcher in question-answering computer systems. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/carnegie-mellon-partners-ibm-offer-cognitive-computing-course-featuring-watson/.