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The Rensselaer community is invited to join with professors, scientists, and others from Rensselaer and IBM to watch as IBM’s Watson computer faces off against the two all-time Jeopardy! champions. The IBM Jeopardy! Challenge represents a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence, and is part of IBM’s centennial celebration.
Named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, the supercomputer is one of the most advanced systems on Earth and was programmed by 25 IBM scientists over the last four years.
The project team is led by David Ferrucci ’94, Principal Investigator, and includes a number of Rensselaer alumni. Chris Welty ’85, who earned all three of his degrees at Rensselaer and is a member of the IBM Watson algorithms team, is a former director of Rensselaer’s computer science laboratory. Welty will be with the Rensselaer audience at all three viewing events and discuss the technology behind Watson. Fellow IBM algorithm team member and Rensselaer graduate Adam Lally ’98 will be joining him for the second two evenings.
“Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge” poses a specific question with very real business implications: “Can a system be designed that applies advanced data management and analytics to natural language in order to uncover a single, reliable insight—in a fraction of a second?”
All three Jeopardy! episodes will be shown on the 56-foot wide high-definition screen in the Concert Hall at Rensselaer’s Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
Join us at Evelyn’s Cafe at 6 p.m. for refreshments, followed by a discussion with experts from IBM and Rensselaer. Following each show, the experts will be available to answer questions.
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Expert Panel Discussion
followed by the
Grand Champions vs. Watson
Feb. 14
Discussion: It’s Not Elementary, My Dear Watson: What are the fundamentals of Watson?
 Discussion 1 (Archived Video)
Jeopardy! Game 1; Part 1
Feb. 15
Discussion: The Category Is: How does Watson work?
Discussion 2 (Archived Video)
Jeopardy! Game 1; Part 2
Feb. 16
Discussion: Watson, Watson-Crick, and Well Beyond: Will Watson become human-aid or humanoid? work?
Discussion 3 (Archived Video)
Jeopardy! Game 2
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