IBM's Watson crushes rivals in second night of "Jeopardy!" challenge. Feb. 16, 2011— -- IBM's super computer Watson clobbered the competition on night two of the three-day man vs. machine ...

The question is, can a computer become a "Jeopardy!" champion? IBM seems pretty confident it can. Four years ago, the company started to work on a computer they called Watson. And programmers have ...

IBM's computer Watson trounces humans in night three of "Jeopardy!" challenge. Feb. 17, 2011— -- Move over mortals, the machines are on their way. In the three-day man vs. machine "Jeopardy!" ...

Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first time the ...

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — The clue: It's the size of 10 refrigerators, has access to the equivalent of 200 million pages of information and knows how to answer in the form of a question. The correct ...

But the emergence of IBM's uncannily intelligent Watson computer – first his merciless vanquishing of two pitiable human opponents on Jeopardy!, then the news that his natural language processing ...

If only there were extra points for good sportsmanship. Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” wunderkund who once won 74 games in a row on ABC’s long-running trivia show, bowed out gracefully with a "Simpsons ...

Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and ...