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 ...

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!" ...

Answer: This competitor will give Jeopardy! über-champions Ken Jennings (left) and Brad Rutter (right) a run for their money in 2011. "Performing well on Jeopardy! requires a combination of skills, ...

Twenty-five IBM scientists have developed for four years and have captured 200 million pages of text (equivalent to one million books) with the power to scan 2 million pages within 3 seconds, 15 ...

TRENTON, N.J. - Turns out all it took to top Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer, was a rocket scientist. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey is just such a scientist. The success of Holt - a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Usually, when we talk about pop culture, we talk about things like The Simpsons and House. You know, fun stuff. But something happened on the game show Jeopardy, on Valentine's Day, and we think it is ...

The natural question to ask, after three of the most extraordinary episodes in the nearly five-decade history of "Jeopardy!," is what did we learn from the virtual beating of the game show's two ...

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 ...