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What’s up with Watson?: Responses to comments in Wall Street Journal

The excerpt in the Wall Street Journal sparked some doubts and concerns…

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Watson’s Linguistic Struggles

When you talk to experts in linguistics about teaching language to a…

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Founder compares his Wolfram-Alpha to Watson

Stephen Wolfram, founder of Mathematica computing software and the Wolfram-Alpha knowledge engine,…

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Jeopardy champ blogs his sparring win over IBM’s Watson

It's been a long year for Greg Lindsay. The two-time Jeopardy champ…

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Turns out IBM’s Watson is Not a Supercomputer!

Talking to a friend at IBM last night, I learned that Watson,…

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Final Jeopardy in “updateable” e-book

The e-book of Final Jeopardy can be pre-ordered, as of today, at…

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Paying for BusinessWeek…one year later

This quote by Tim O'Reilly is making the rounds on Twitter this…

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Newsweek, Wikileaks, and cloud computing

Anyone interested in press freedom should take a read of Joseph Galarneau's…

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Probability and Karl Rove

I was getting ready to drive to the airport in Los Angeles…

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Privacy regulations: fear, loathing and AOL

My timing was off. I marketed my book on data, the Numerati,…

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