The late Peter Falk played Lieutenant Columbo, the iconic television detective from the 1970s. The cigar-smoking, trench-coat wearing Columbo was shabby and unassuming and his murder suspects – usually the rich and powerful living in Los Angeles– would initially judge the book
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Our lives are filled with distractions. There are the business distractions that come in the form of urgent emails just as we began working on the project we’ve been trying to complete for a week, and there are the inevitable personal distractions
February 16th 2011 was the final night of the Man vs. Machine Grand Challenge in which the IBM supercomputer, Watson, played the trivia game Jeopardy against two of its all-time champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson bested its competition, with the
I am a child from the Age of Irony that period of time defined by cynicism, emotional detachment, and black comedy. My generation–Gen-X–has experienced one economic upheaval after another, first within the dot.com boom and bust of the 90s and then the
The story of Watson and the Grand Challenge is pure fascination for tech geeks like me. For those of you who don’t know or haven’t heard yet, Watson is the latest supercomputer from IBM that will use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Artist Pablo Picasso once said, “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” In the days since this famous quote, computers have slimmed down in size, become more nimble in processing speed, and have become mainstays in both corporate and personal