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IBM and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are partnering to explore how an IBM supercomputer can assist doctors and if it can possibly find a cure for cancer, Information Week reports. IBM chief medical scientist Martin Kohn and Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center CIO Pat Skarulis announced the partnership will use IBM’s Watson supercomputer and the center’s Darwin, […] More
IBM announced today that Jeopardy! will broadcast an encore presentation of the first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition between IBM’s “Watson” computing system and the show’s two most successful contestants – Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Viewers will have a second opportunity to watch as Watson competes against two human champions in two matches played […] More
“Medical diagnosis for 400, Alex.“ “Creeping and crawling. Tingling and gnawing. This disease jerks you to your feet.“ Between sometimes conflicting and confusing lists of symptoms, a plethora of test results and fragmented and scattered patient histories, doctors often struggle to come to a correct and speedy diagnosis. Dion Rudnicki, a senior location executive for […] More
If you've tuned in to “Jeopardy“ this week, you've seen Watson, the IBM-built computer interface, trounce the human competition, including two of the game show's previous champions. So, is it just a matter of time before robots take over the world? Well, not quite. In fact, David McQueeney, vice president of IBM Research, who spoke […] More
The second round of man vs. machine on Jeopardy will begin next month, and if Thursday's practice game was any indication, the humans really need to step up their game. Former Jeopardy winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter lost by $1,000 to IBM's Watson DeepQA-based computer in a three-category practice game. The grand prize for […] More
Question: What is a competition featuring an IBM computer, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and Alex Trebek? Answer: Jeopardy's man vs. machine competition that will air Feb. 14, 15 and 16, 2011. Jeopardy announced an IBM computing system named Watson will compete on the game show against the show's two most successful contestants, Ken Jennings and […] More
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