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Title:

Smartest machine on Earth [videorecording] : can a computer win on Jeopardy!? / written by Julia Cort & Michael Bicks ; produced and directed by Michael Bicks ; a Nova production by Little Bay Pictures, LLC for WGBH.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

PBS Distribution,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Jeopardy (Television program)--Video disc (DVD).
Watson (Computer)--Video disc (DVD).
Natural language processing (Computer science)--Video disc (DVD).
Semantic computing--Video disc (DVD).
Database management--Video disc (DVD).
Computers--Video disc (DVD).
Artificial intelligence--Video disc (DVD).
Computer scientists--Video disc (DVD).
Documentary television programs--Video disc (DVD).
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Bicks, Michael.
Cort, Julia.
PBS Distribution (Firm)
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Other Titles:

Nova (Television program)

Notes:

Originally produced as an episode of Nova on PBS. Narrator: Jonathan MacKenzie.

Summary:

Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, but scientists are edging closer with machines like 'Watson,' an IBM computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show Jeopardy!, taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the show's most successful and celebrated contestants of all time. This program is an updated version of the original broadcast, with additional content added.

ISBN:

1608834174
9781608834174

UPC:

841887014205

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)