By Jaya Narain, the Tech (MIT)
Watson, IBM’s champion Jeopardy! computer, is making its way to Cambridge to compete in a trivia match with students from the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. The competition, dubbed the “IBM Watson Challenge,” will be held at the Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 31. The challenge will be preceded by “The Race Against the Machine: The Future of Tech” Symposium at the MIT Media Lab, which will include a number of talks about Watson’s creation and the future of the technology. Following the symposium, buses will depart from the Media Lab at 2:15 p.m. for those interested in attending the trivia competition at Harvard. The “IBM Watson Challenge” is the result of the efforts of Professor Erik Brynjolfsson GM ’91 of MIT Sloan and Willy C. Shih of the Harvard Business School. Brynjolfsson said the tournament stemmed from a mutual desire to highlight “some of the ways that technology is changing business.” Brynjolfsson said that the new technology could revolutionize day-to-day business.
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N48/watson.html
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