IBM's Watson crushes rivals in second night of "Jeopardy!" challenge. Feb. 16, 2011— -- IBM's super computer Watson clobbered the competition on night two of the three-day man vs. machine ...

In a breakthrough for artificial intelligence, IBM's Watson supercomputer has trounced Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in an exhibition round of Jeopardy! The round took place today ...

Beating a human at chess – a game largely dependent on probability and more algorithmic forms of strategy – is one thing, but can a new supercomputer developed by IBM win at a game that requires ...

First Watson won 'Jeopardy!' and now it's coming to your iPhone app. In this file photo, visitors check out a slimmed down version of the IBM Watson supercomputer at IBM's stand at the CeBIT ...

IBM’s Jeopardy! playing super computer Watson has had us glued to the TV screen the past few evenings. We are drawn out of curiosity: we wanted to see if human contestants can beat a computer and if ...

If only there were extra points for good sportsmanship. Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” wunderkund who once won 74 games in a row on ABC’s long-running trivia show, bowed out gracefully with a "Simpsons ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The greatest "Jeopardy!" player of all time is moving to San Francisco -- a computer named Watson. Watson, an IBM super computer, was a fearsome opponent on the game show and ...

Turns out it really does take a rocket scientist to beat Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive ...

Now that IBM's Watson supercomputer has proved itself to be better than humans at Jeopardy, it's time to put it to work in a more productive setting: the healthcare industry. Watson's ability to parse ...

The natural question to ask, after three of the most extraordinary episodes in the nearly five-decade history of "Jeopardy!," is what did we learn from the virtual beating of the game show's two ...