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Also known as IBM Watson

artificial intelligence computer system made by IBM

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IBM
Location
Thomas J. Watson Research Center , New York, USA
Architecture
2,880 POWER7 processor threads
Memory
16 terabytes of RAM
Speed
80 teraFLOPS
Website
www .ibm .com /watson

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IBM Watson
inception
2004-00-00
number of processor cores
1440
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IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research team, led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.

The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the popular quiz show Jeopardy! and in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, winning the first-place prize of US$1 million.

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