[Colloquium] Watson on Jeopardy!

[Craig Stacey]

Folks, sorry for the confusion.  The Argonne viewing is just the show, at 3:30 (yesterday, today, and tomorrow).

On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Craig Stacey wrote:

> It's looking good.  I'll have a more stable solution in place for tomorrow, but for now this seems to be doing the trick.
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> This is in 240/1407, the small room closest to the doors in the TCS conference center.
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> On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Craig Stacey wrote:
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>> I've got one last kink I'm working out (figures the channel airing it is the one with the weakest signal).  I expect to be showing this in 1407 downstairs.
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>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Craig Stacey wrote:
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>>> For those at Argonne, I'm working on a way to show this in the conference center.
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>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Ninfa Mayorga wrote:
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>>>> Man vs. Machine – who will win?
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>>>> Watson on Jeopardy!
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>>>> Cast your votes at our Viewing Party
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>>>> February 15th 2011
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>>>> 2:30pm
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>>>> Searle 240a
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>>>> Join the Computation Institute and IT Services at a Jeopardy! Viewing party where the Watson supercomputer (developed by IBM) will make it's debut as the first non-human contestant to appear on the award-winning quiz show. Watson will take on all-time Jeopardy! Champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in a bid to become a new breed of champion.
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>>>> The event, moderated by Ian Foster, Computation Institute Director, will also include perspectives from Klara Jelinkova, Chief Information Technology Officer within IT Services and University faculty members, John Goldsmith (Computer Science and Linguistics) and James Evans (Sociology), on the impact of natural language processing.
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>>>> Representatives from IBM will also be on hand to explain the technology behind Watson and what they hope to accomplish with it.
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>>>> Refreshments will be served.
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>>>> Can’t attend the event in person? Watch it on cTV on ABC-7 at 3:30!
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