Title: Final Jeopardy
Description: Researchers at IBM launched a billion-dollar project to develop a machine that could compete in the quiz show Jeopardy--and win. The machine faced off in a high-ratings match against two former champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Journalist Stephen Baker carries readers on a captivating journey from the IBM labs to the showdown in Hollywood. The story features brilliant Ph.D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy masters--and a very special collection of silicon and circuitry named Watson. It was a classic match of Man vs. Machine, not seen since the chess-playing computer Deep Blue bested the world's reigning grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. And Watson needed to do more than churn through chess moves or find a relevant Web page--it had to understand language, including puns and irony, and master everything from history and literature to science, arts, and entertainment.--Adapted from publisher description.
Subjects: Television, Database management, Semantic computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Jeopardy! (Television program), Watson (Computer), Natural Language Processing, Natural language processing (Computer science), Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing (computer science), Television quiz shows, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics