http://www.thebostonchannel.com/money/26865253/detail.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Thebostonchannel%2Flocal+%28TheBostonChannel.com+-+News%29 NEW YORK -- In the "Jeopardy!" battle of man vs. machine, man and machine were neck-and-neck on Monday.
Human player Brad Rutter and the supercomputer named Watson ended an initial round tied at $5,000. The other challenger, human Ken Jennings, was far behind with $2,000. Watson, named for IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is powered by 10 racks of computer servers running the Linux operating system. [...] The exhibition matches will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday on the popular trivia TV game show. Two complete games will be aired, with the winner collecting $1 million. The bouts were taped at the IBM research center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., last month. Both men and Watson have managed to keep the final outcome under wraps. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
