IBM's Deep Blue proved its mettle playing chess against human grandmasters. But could the numbers crunchers at the IBM Watson Center create a program that would allow a computer to play in a free format question-and-answer game show? Stephen Baker, the former BusinessWeek reporter and author of the 2009 book, The Numerati explains the story behind the February, 2011 contest on the popular television series Jeopardy. Hear the author of the new Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything.
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