By PETER NORVIG Last Updated: 5:17 AM, February 13, 2011 Posted: 10:34 PM, February 12, 2011
Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease. Fifty years ago this spring, President Kennedy declared a space race, promising to land a man safely on the moon before the end of the decade. And 54 years ago, Artificial Intelligence pioneer Herbert Simon declared that “there are now in the world machines that think” and predicted that a computer would be world chess champion within 10 years. How have these bold efforts fared? We all know that Neil Armstrong made the giant leap for mankind in 1969, on schedule, and by the mid-1970s the sight of astronauts walking and driving on the moon became so routine that people impatiently started switching their TVs back to baseball. But to the layman it seems that efforts in cancer and artificial intelligence have failed; there have been no breakthroughs giving us the cure or the answer. Read more:
Washington Post - Trebek has made a good living testing his contestants' knowledge for almost three decades, but an upcoming match against the IBM-designed Watson ...
Los Angeles Times - Feb 12, 2011 They'll get their chance Monday, when "Jeopardy" champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter face off against Watson, the world's most advanced question-answering ...
Slate Magazine (blog) - Feb 11, 2011 What is Watson? Answer: the IBM super computer that will take on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the most successful Jeopardy! champions of all time. ...
Daily Times - Feb 11, 2011 This photo courtesy of IBM shows Watson, powered by IBM POWER7, a work-load optimised system that can answer questions posed in natural language over a ...
Three pre-recorded shows set to air February 14, 15, and 16 will pit IBM supercomputer Watson against Jeopardy's two all-time biggest champions, ... Who is Watson? If this were a game of Jeopardy!, that would be the answer - answered in the form of a question - and the clue would read: This name, ...
UPI.com - Feb 12, 2011 The company's Watson will match its mechanical wits in episodes taped at an IBM Research facility in New York.Watson won a practice round against two past ... Los Angeles Times - Feb 11, 2011 You can guess who wins, although Watson does have vulnerabilities. By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times Will supercomputers one day crush our puny mortal ...
IBM supercomputer Watson will compete against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a first-of-its-kind competition to be aired ... IBM supercomputer Watson will compete against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a first-of-its-kind competition to be aired ...
IBM and eight universities from around the world will collaborate on developing the company'sWatson ...
contest Ken Jennings, who won a record 74 consecutive games, refers to his opponent, an IBM computer called "Watson", while being interviewed after a ...
Columbus Dispatch - 11 hours ago In case you haven't heard: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter - two Jeopardy! superstars - will play against an IBM computer named Watson on the game show, ...
Watson, a supercomputer named for IBM founder Thomas Watson, is to take on two human champions of the long-running Jeopardy! television quiz show in two ...
AP Photo, Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Host Alex Trebek, left, poses with contestants Ken Jennings, center, and Brad Rutter and a computer named Watson on the ...
International Business Times - Feb 12, 2011 By IBTimes Staff Reporter | February 12, 2011 4:36 AM EST IBM's famous Watson computing system will be creating history as it competes in a special edition ...
Washington Post - Feb 11, 2011 15, at 11 am, to discuss his match-up against Watson, an IBM computing system, and the popular game show. Have a question? Submit it now and watch live on ...
NPR - Feb 11, 2011 Four years in the works, IBM's supercomputer "Watson" will compete against Jeopardy! champions from Feb. 14-16. To win, the computer will have to process ...
"Jeopardy" champions Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter watch IBM's Watson beat them to the buzzer in a Jan. 13 practice round. AP View Enlarged Image Eric ...
University of Texas at Austin News - Tim Green - Feb 11, 2011 Challenge, which pits two human Jeopardy! champions against Watson, a computer built by IBM Corp. Watson will take on Ken Jennings, who had the show's ...
champion Brad Rutter played against Watson, an IBM computer built specifically to rival a human's ability to answer questions in natural language. ...
WBGH - Feb 11, 2011 On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the Watson machine will challenge Jeopardy's top two contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. ...
Jennings knew going into the game that Watson was designed to be fast on the draw -or quick on the buzzer, in Jeopardy! parlance. Jennings saw the challenge ...
WPXI Pittsburgh - Feb 11, 2011 PITTSBURGH -- "Jeopardy" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings are all set to take on the talking IBMWatson computer, designed by Carnegie Mellon ...
For three nights next week, an IBM computer called Watson will compete on "Jeopardy!" against the popular quiz ...
The National Law Journal - Feb 11, 2011 You've probably heard of "Watson," a computer named after IBM's first chief executive, Thomas J. Watson Sr., which will compete on TV's Jeopardy! against ...
CTO Edge - Feb 11, 2011 In case you don't have plans for Valentine's Day, consider this a friendly reminder that IBM's Watsonsupercomputer will be making its debut Feb. ...
Network World - Feb 11, 2011 If you have seen any of the video of its preliminary bouts on Jeopardy! you know that IBM's Watson computer is pretty amazing. One of the main reasons it ...
Jennings and Rutter are onstage with a monitor representing the enormous computer named Watson. They play two games over three days (Monday-Wednesday, ...
Bloomington Pantagraph - Feb 12, 2011 IBM's Bruce Cather shared a video about the IBM Watson, a computer that will compete with all-time champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the televised ... ==============================================================================
Will "Watson" be our first-Computer President ?
Or will "Watson" merge with man in 2045 to create the IMORTAL MAN as futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts ?
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