via Slate Magazine by Daniel D'Addario on 2/11/11
Next week, Jeopardy!'s two greatest champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, will square off against IBM's Watson supercomputer. IBM technicians have spent years programming the computer to interpret the meaning of Jeopardy! clues and scour its data bank for possible answers. The computer seems to have mastered the form: In a filmed practice round, Watson beat Jennings by $1,000.[more ...] 
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