IBM Watson
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IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research team, led by principal investigator David Fer
Ken Jennings, Watson, and Brad Rutter in their Jeopardy! exhibition match
Watson demo at an IBM booth at a trade show
Deep Blue (chess computer)
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Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against
IBM Watson
…anticipation time was generally too great to fall within Watson's response time. Watson did not attempt to anticipate the notification signal. Since Deep Blue's victory over Garry Kasparov in chess in 1997, IBM had been on the hunt for a new challenge. In 2004, IBM Research manager Charles Lickel, over dinner…
A computer similar to Deep Blue at the Computer History Museum
One of Deep Blue's processors