Audit: Lynda Chin's abandoned $62 million IBM Watson collaboration didn't follow standard procedures

By Paul Goldberg and Matthew Bin Han Ong

An audit of an abandoned mega-project run by IBM Watson and MD Anderson Cancer Center found that the Houston-based institution skirted the UT System's procurement regulations as it spent $62.1 million on an ill-fated artificial intelligence system.

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Audit: Lynda Chin's abandoned $62 million IBM Watson collaboration didn't follow standard procedures

Is it research or run-of-the-mill IT?

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