I more find it hard to believe that IBM doesn't already have something like this?

I was at a tech conference in 2007 where someone demoed his side project, which was similar. His demo was feeding it raw data from Wikipedia and showing how editors were connected. It looked almost exactly like The Brain, too.

moritz wrote:

I would rather have the developers focus on core usability issues and
shipping the new release in a stable state?
Arguably, another distraction that further slows down development is the
last thing TheBrain needs right now - perhaps the goal is to sell off
the company to IBM and call it a day?

Paul Korm wrote:
There was an interesting thread in the v9 beta forum the other day
>between an IBM Watson Group team member and the v9 developer lead
>exploring the possibility of using v9 as "discovery" "concept
navigator"
>for relationships that Watson might have found in a large corpus of
>documents.