dr. wayne watson, take it is in greetings and welcome you to the university. dr. wayne watson. [applause] >> good evening. we can never acknowledge and thank those who have the courage to have vision and the courage to bring it forth. we can never acknowledge and thank them too much. our congressional black caucus, let us applaud and acknowledge them. [applause] >> my mother used to always say, let me smell my roses while i'm here. you know, two things. one is, a question was asked earlier, what are we going to do, are we going to come up with new money, are we going to come up with new money to solve the problems? chicago state university, we are stepping up and we've stepped up for the last year now, and we have established what is called an interdisciplinary institute for urban solutions. and i now challenge universities throughout america to reprioritize your human resources, to take your tens of thousands of students and faculty that are in the different disciplines, from social work the health management, and have those students and those faculties go into the contiguous

dr. watson. i will be your moderator for this evening. am the political director to russell simmons and editor in chief of local grind. i have listed on the board of directors of the trayvon martin foundation. thank you. this evening, this day is about you. and the incredible folks who are on this stage who gave a call to action for the city of chicago to have this conversation, this emergency summit, if you will. the next two hours to want to engage in a conversation and have a dialogue with those sitting in the audience and on stage. i will speak as little as possible and just allow for the conversation to incur. there are some members of the congressional staff who have index cards that will be passed around to right questions on. we will be taking those index cards throughout the evening. if i can for a moment, as i sat in my home in new york last night reflecting on coming to the city of chicago, i remembered a piece i wrote four years ago. if i could just reach to small portion of it, i would appreciate that. the line has slowly com

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doctors now counting on the ibm computer known as watson for a life-saving battle. dr. ne. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is watson. >> reporter: two years ago, ibm's super computer watson beat the champions of "jeopardy!." >> now, we go to washington. we're looking for bram stoker. >> reporter: now taking on a new challenge. watson is in intense training to help fight cancer. >> what we are creating now are a generation of computers that can learn from the data that they see. and make conditions. >> reporter: oncologist mark kris is collaborating with ibm for lung cancer patients. >> there's millions of people with lung cancer. the vast majority of those get the drug treatment. the idea is to use watson technology to make better treatment decisions. >> reporter: watson has already injected more than 600,000 pieces of medical evidence. 2 million pages of text 26,000 clinical cases and had almost 16,000 hours of training. >> a substantial part of it is self-taught. it's called machine learning where watson is programmed are to understand and analyze english. >> reporter: d

dr. kris inputs the patient's medical history on an ipad with a remote connection to watson. >> these areporter: then watson thinks and scans through testing, guidelines and journal articles and suggests further testing. >> reporter: he has suggested an mri of the brain, to get a hepatitis b and a pregnancy test. >> reporter: watson recalculates and comes up with a personalized treatment plan. instead of replacing the role of the physician, dr. kris thinks it should be seen as a second opinion. carol zaxel is battling lung cancer. >> i think it is a phenomenal advance. i am very excited about it. >> reporter: the computer is also being trained to help with breast cancer and even to teach medical students. experts hope a version may be used in hospitals in a year a move that would make medicine better than ever but would undoubtedly change it forever. >> reporter: is watson have a future in health care? >> yes. >> we have seen the doctor up there looking and thinking i want one of those. will it affect health care cost? >> absolutely. unfortunately, about a third of our health care costs i