After a three night marathon on the quiz show Jeopardy, Watson emerged victorious to win a $1million (£622,000) prize. The computer's competitors were two of the most successful players ever to have ...

It appears not even computers are immune from getting their proverbial 15 minutes of fame. Watson, with its 90 IBM Power 750 servers laced together, intones its answers with a robotic voice coming ...

Answer: This competitor will give Jeopardy! über-champions Ken Jennings (left) and Brad Rutter (right) a run for their money in 2011. Question: What is Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer?

NOTE: Before tonight's big match begins, check out our feature, "Who's Smarter, a Human or a Computer? Round 9: Jeopardy," on the other human games that AI programmers have tried to perfect—and the ...

IBM and the producers of quiz show Jeopardy announced Tuesday that an IBM computer known as "Watson" will compete against two of the show's most successful contestants in February 2011. Watson, named ...

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Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He's a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show. Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to ...

champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter know what it takes to win -- against humans. But when the duo go face-to-face with IBM's supercomputer Watson, starting Monday night, they'll be relying on ...

A computer is being prepared to compete in the quiz show Jeopardy, and if its developers at IBM have their way, it could well become the next great contestant to beat. The computer, called Watson, ...

IBM's supercomputer Watson has trounced its two competitors in a televised show pitting human brains against computer bytes. After a three night marathon on the quiz show Jeopardy, Watson emerged ...

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