Beating a human at chess – a game largely dependent on probability and more algorithmic forms of strategy – is one thing, but can a new supercomputer developed by IBM win at a game that requires ...

First Watson won 'Jeopardy!' and now it's coming to your iPhone app. In this file photo, visitors check out a slimmed down version of the IBM Watson supercomputer at IBM's stand at the CeBIT ...

It got famous on Jeopardy! and has been keeping its head down "going to med school" in hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering. But now Watson, IBM's "commercial cognitive computer system," is ...

IBM’s Jeopardy! playing super computer Watson has had us glued to the TV screen the past few evenings. We are drawn out of curiosity: we wanted to see if human contestants can beat a computer and if ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The greatest "Jeopardy!" player of all time is moving to San Francisco -- a computer named Watson. Watson, an IBM super computer, was a fearsome opponent on the game show and ...

Now that IBM's Watson supercomputer has proved itself to be better than humans at Jeopardy, it's time to put it to work in a more productive setting: the healthcare industry. Watson's ability to parse ...

Natural language problem solving could be applied to any number of disciplines. In UC, I think it can spur advancements in social networking. I'm a big time Jeopardy fan, so I was planted squarely in ...

Though super-intelligent computer Watson had no problem trouncing all time “Jeopardy” high score holder Ken Jennings, it appears that it can be felled by mere mortals after all. Rush Holt, a U.S. Rep.