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How to Design the Face of a Supercomputer: Video
The swirling, colorful face of IBM’s Jeopardy-machine Watson is part pure representation--of answer confidence, for example--part branding, and, to hear the creators tell it, art. Personally, I think it would have been best to line up Watson’s 1...
Michael Byrne
2.16.11
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Meet, Cower Before, Watson, the Computer That Beats You At Jeopardy (Video)
This week marks the 15th anniversary of Garry Kasperov's monumental match against "Deep Blue":http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/, in which computers most famously schooled humans at chess. And it's the 14th anniversary of the would-have-been rematch...
ALEX PASTERNACK
2.10.11