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Final Jeopardy : man vs. machine and the quest to know everything / Stephen Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Description: 268 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780547483160 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.3 22
LOC classification:
  • QA 76.9 .B35 2011
Contents:
The germ of the Jeopardy machine -- And representing the humans-- -- Blue J is born -- Educating Blue J -- Watson's face -- Watson takes on humans -- AI -- A season of jitters -- Watson looks for work -- How to play the game -- The match.
Summary: Researchers at IBM launched a billion-dollar project to develop a machine that could compete in the quiz show Jeopardy--and win. The machine faced off in a high-ratings match against two former champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Journalist Stephen Baker carries readers on a captivating journey from the IBM labs to the showdown in Hollywood. The story features brilliant Ph.D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy masters--and a very special collection of silicon and circuitry named Watson. It was a classic match of Man vs. Machine, not seen since the chess-playing computer Deep Blue bested the world's reigning grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. And Watson needed to do more than churn through chess moves or find a relevant Web page--it had to understand language, including puns and irony, and master everything from history and literature to science, arts, and entertainment.--Adapted from publisher description.
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Books The MUA Library South C campus - Open Collection QA 76.9 .B35 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2012-0428
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QA 76.8 .H36 2008 Database management&design / QA 76.9 .A23 1999 Oracle8i : QA 76.9 .A37 1996 Data mining / QA 76.9 .B35 2011 Final Jeopardy : QA 76.9 .B43 2004 Managing information : QA 76.9 .B87 1994 Managing distributed databases : QA 76.9 .B87 1994 Managing distributed databases :

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-268).

The germ of the Jeopardy machine -- And representing the humans-- -- Blue J is born -- Educating Blue J -- Watson's face -- Watson takes on humans -- AI -- A season of jitters -- Watson looks for work -- How to play the game -- The match.

Researchers at IBM launched a billion-dollar project to develop a machine that could compete in the quiz show Jeopardy--and win. The machine faced off in a high-ratings match against two former champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Journalist Stephen Baker carries readers on a captivating journey from the IBM labs to the showdown in Hollywood. The story features brilliant Ph.D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy masters--and a very special collection of silicon and circuitry named Watson. It was a classic match of Man vs. Machine, not seen since the chess-playing computer Deep Blue bested the world's reigning grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. And Watson needed to do more than churn through chess moves or find a relevant Web page--it had to understand language, including puns and irony, and master everything from history and literature to science, arts, and entertainment.--Adapted from publisher description.

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