The foundation of cognitive computing -- Design principles for cognitive systems -- Natural language processing in support of a cognitive system -- The relationship between big data and cognitive computing -- Representing knowledge in taxonomies and ontologies -- Applying advanced analytics to cognitive computing -- The role of cloud and distributed computing in cognitive computing -- The business implications of cognitive computing -- IBM's Watson as a cognitive system -- The process of building a cognitive application -- Building a cognitive healthcare application -- Smarter cities : cognitive computing in government -- Emerging cognitive computing areas -- Future applications for cognitive computing