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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by Padavies on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @02:01AM (#2225431)
Come on, outside of these academic exercises, IBM is now just a giant consulting firm.
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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by kevin_morrill on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @03:17AM (#2225639)
umm yeah giant as in $100 billion in revenue and about $15 billion in net income. Not a bad business at all. I should hope to be so boring.
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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by arethuza on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:49AM (#2226028)
With over $10 billion a year in hardware sales.
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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by bl4k on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:06AM (#2226067)
$30M to build Watson to buy all this PR is brilliant. As was Deep Blue.

I just hope the next challenge isn't "defeat a standing army"

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Re:Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy' by crocowhile on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @09:21AM (#2226402)
academic exercise? you call a turing prize or a nobel prize an academic exercise?
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