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 ...

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 ...

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, left, poses with contestants Ken Jennings, center, and Brad Rutter and IBM’s computer named Watson Do the best Jeopardy players in the world have any chance of beating IBM’s ...

Can a computer beat a human being in a game designed for humans? American TV viewers will soon find out. Two of the most successful contestants ever to appear on the Jeopardy! game show – Ken Jennings ...

“Watson”, an IBM (News - Alert) supercomputer, displayed a few quirks but played to a draw on the opening day of a man vs. machine showdown with two human champions of the popular US television game ...

The clue: It's the size of 10 refrigerators, has access to the equivalent of 200 million pages of information and knows how to answer in the form of a question. Later, the human contestants made jokes ...

NEW YORK — The game show “Jeopardy” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two ...

KHQ.COM - Start the "computers are conquering the world" jokes now. "Jeopardy!" master Ken Jennings already has. The IBM supercomputer Watson won its second "Jeopardy!" game in Wednesday's edition of ...

When you’ve been hosting Jeopardy! for 26 years, as Alex Trebek has, you begin looking for new ways to amuse yourself. Back in 2001, for example, he shaved his mustache. In 2005, he decided not to ...

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 ...