At the e-G8 summit yesterday, I got into a little spat over privacy. My point, in a panel discussion, was that there are two different classes of…
Just got back from Seattle on a red-eye, and I take off for Paris on another red-eye Sunday night. I'm not complaining, but maybe I should buy…
I read these stories that Apple collects users' location data, and I lament: Why do I bother writing articles no one apparently reads! In a BW story…
My health-care chapter in The Numerati focused on Intel's efforts to mine the minutia of elderly people's lives. In pilot projects, they wired people's homes with all…
When it comes to computing efficiency, humans beings blow Watson away. As Jonah Lehrer points out, the human brain requires with less power than a dim light…
Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy reports that interest in Jeopardy's Man-vs-Machine match dipped a bit for the final of the three-evening event. The Nielsen ratings climbed following Monday's…
Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions for the machine from @larrylugo, such as: (more…)
I took this pic of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center as I drove away following the match there between Watson and its human rivals. My mind…
Everything I see is reminding me of my favorite Jeopardy player. This photo is from New York, Broadway in the 20s, I think. Note the snow. There…
I enjoyed watching the Nova special, Smartest Machine on Earth, about IBM's Jeopardy computer. It was interesting to me that they chose to call Watson ...'he'.... I…
