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Mild-Mannered Watson Skewers Human Opponents on Jeopardy

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A supercomputer designed by IBM and dubbed “Watson” went up against game show Jeopardy’s two all-time champions — and won. Pitting champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter against Watson, the contest was a practice round for the main event: a televised face-off between man and machine next month on the popular game show. The games,…

IBM’s Watson Takes One Small Step for a Computer

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Instantly sorting 15 trillion memory bytes to find the right answer to a “Jeopardy” question: Elementary, my dear Watson. Or so an IBM supercomputer named “Watson” set out to prove Monday, tackling trivia with the popular television game show’s all-time human champs, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. “A four-letter word for the iron fitting on…

The Big Blue Centenarian: What’s Next for IBM?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As IBM celebrates its centennial this year, the company is building technologies to take us into the future. IBM’s Watson computer has pounded its human opponents on the game show “Jeopardy,” signaling huge improvements in the development of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing. Meanwhile, Big Blue is working on a smarter planet initiative which aims…

Watson Graduates From Game Contestant to Physician Assistant

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Fresh from a super-sized “Jeopardy” victory where it looked suspiciously like President Obama’s ubiquitous teleprompter, IBM supercomputer Watson is about to become Dr. Watson, M.D. assistant. IBM’s Watson computer system trounced Jeopardy’s two most successful and celebrated contestants — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — in a two-game match. A joint venture will combine IBM’s…

IBM to Build Super-Storage Phenom

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM is working on a 120-petabyte storage array that will consist of 200,000 disk drives, according to the MIT Technology Review. The array is expected to store about 1 trillion files. It’s being developed for a client that needs a new supercomputer for detailed simulations of real-world phenomena. Storing the metadata about the information in…

Titan Starts Training for Supercomputing’s World Cup

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded U.S. supercomputer manufacturer Cray a contract to upgrade its existing Jaguar supercomputer. The contract, which Cray pegs as worth US$97 million, will cover a multi-phase process scheduled for completion in 2013. Cray will essentially rip out and replace Jaguar’s existing processors with the latest AMD Opteron CPUs and…

AMD Breaks New Ground With FX Bulldozer Processors

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled its FX Series family of processors, which includes two it heralds as the first eight-core desktop CPUs. These are the first processors available in retail that use AMD’s new Bulldozer multicore architecture. The FX processors are priced at between US$115 and $245 and are aimed at “enabling the ultimate multimedia…

IBM’s Watson: Why Politicians Will Hate It but We May Love It

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM’s Watson supercomputer became famous when it beat the top “Jeopardy” champions on TV. What folks didn’t know is that Watson did that with significant handicaps that wouldn’t be applied were the same system actually deployed to answer real questions. What Watson is particularly good at is providing the right answers to questions, which apparently,…

AT&T’s Watson APIs Let Apps Recognize Speech

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

AT&T could shake up the voice-recognition market when it launches several application programming interfaces (APIs) for its Watson speech recognition program in June. Developers will be able to use these APIs to create new apps and services with voice recognition and transcription capabilities. AT&T will also release a software development kit (SDK) that lets devs…

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