The first round of Jeopardy's "IBM Challenge" — pitting all-time best human players Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter against an IBM trivia machine — ended poorly for the flesh-and- blood ...

Trivia Machine Wins ‘Jeopardy’ IBM Challenge — But Was It Watson? In second and final game, competition gets tighter between man and machine. Tim Molloy. February 16, 2011 @ 5:25 PM.

Back in 1997, IBM made history when its computer Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasporov in a game of chess. Now their new questioning answering system, Watson, is looking to do the same with ...

After practice rounds and plenty of hype, Watson, IBM’s latest supercomputer, stepped up to the podium to take on two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions: Ken Jennings, who won 74 straight rounds ...

Jeopardy champion Brad Rutter was tied with IBM super computer, Watson at $5000 apiece after the first round of Jeopardy’s three-night IBM challenge on Monday. The other carbon-based life form ...

When we last left our heroes, Watson and the undefeated Jeopardy champion Brad Rutter were tied for the lead with $5000 apiece. Ken Jennings, meanwhile, trailed with $2000.

We would call this contest man versus machine, but Ken Jennings is more superhero than man.. The famed Jeopardy! winner, along with fellow champ Brad Rutter, will test his wits against IBM’s Watson ...

Round two of the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge continued last night as past champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter returned to face off against the trivia-spouting supercomputer, Watson. The first round ...

This week Jeopardy! has been broadcasting an encore presentation of the first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition between IBM's 'Watson' computing system and the show's two greatest contestants ...

IBM will put its natural-language processing research to the test this fall, when its Watson supercomputer goes up against human players on "Jeopardy." Supercomputers have beaten world champions ...

The competition is reminiscent of when IBM developed a chess-playing computer to compete against chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. The "Jeopardy" answer-and-question format is a different ...