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There's a video of Roger Craig explaining the web app he created: http://vimeo.com/29001512

Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/16/mind-blown-this-guy-broke-jeopardys-all-time-record-with-an-app/

Most recent tournament champion, Roger Craig, broke Ken Jenning's all-time money record.<p>His finest display of Jeopardy prowess was this back-to-back "Daily Double" all-ins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwK8SyVeJE<p>To prepare for the competition Craig developed a web app to analyze all the questions in Jeopardy's archive and reverse engineer the game. He explains it...

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