In January, President Obama handed the reins to Joe Biden to head a "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer, and a major step toward that end has just been made. At the National Cancer Moonshot Summit on ...

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 ...

In a recent fascinating “Nova” episode about the story behind this week’s “Jeopardy!” showdown pitting an IBM computer against the TV program’s two greatest players, host Alex Trebek muses about his ...

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 ...

Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first time the ...

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IBM's three year old supercomputer, called Watson, might be used in Africa to “leapfrog” the continent's economy and lead to better agriculture, better education, and better health. Watson could push ...