Science correspondent Miles O'Brien goes head-to-circuit board with IBM's computer Watson on the game show "Jeopardy!" to explore the limits of language and artificial intelligence for machines. Man ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against IBM Watson at a press conference at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on January ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out it really does take a rocket scientist to beat Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey — a five-time champion during the trivia show's ...

Open source software such as Lucene and Linux played a crucial role in IBM’s Jeopardy computer The software that helped IBM’s Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February ...

Succeeding as a contestant on "Jeopardy!" requires a breadth of knowledge that spans from ancient history to the latest pop culture. One might then think that the best contestants would be those who ...

So what if they could program a super-computer with millions of articles from medical journals, case histories and diagnostic analyses? Then a doctor facing a complicated case could simply type in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The computer brained its human competition in Game 1 of the Man vs. Machine competition on 'Jeopardy!' On the 30-question game board, veteran 'Jeopardy!' champs Ken Jennings and Brad ...

U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey - a five-time champion during the trivia show's original run 35 years ago - topped the IBM computer Monday night in a "Jeopardy"-style match of congressmen vs.