IBM and Hult Business School Design First Joint Digital Services Curriculum
IBM attempts to mesh education and technology for students.
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Weekly GeekMom Video Playlist
This week, the GeekMoms were watching record-breaking videos, gaming videos and more. To save you from losing time searching for the geeky videos from this week, these videos and several others (along with the playlist from last week) can be found on the GeekMom YouTube channel. Here are a couple of the featured videos from the playlist, including the world’s smallest movie, Wil Wheaton pretends to be a sort of dinosaur, and some Warhammer Joey.
Continue ReadingDas Model S Professional Keyboard Brings the Clickety-Clack to Your Mac
As I’m writing this post, I pretty much don’t have to worry about doing a word count — or more accurately a character count. That’s because I’m writing it using a soon-to-be released Das Keyboard Model S Professional for Mac …
Continue ReadingHappy 100th Birthday, IBM!
One hundred years ago today, three companies merged to become the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation. At the time, the business manufactured and sold a number of different machines, ranging from time recorders to food slicers. Thirteen years later, CTR …
Continue ReadingWhy Watson’s Jeopardy! Win Is Mostly Meaningless (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Don’t worry: Computers aren’t going to take over the world any time soon. IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! is little more than a publicity stunt. Its value as a scientific experiment is roughly on par …
Continue ReadingWhy Watson’s Jeopardy! Win Is Mostly Meaningless — By a Former Contestant
Don’t worry: Computers aren’t going to take over the world any time soon. IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! is little more than a publicity stunt. Its value as a scientific experiment is roughly on par …
Continue ReadingWhat’s With Watson’s Weird Bets? And Other Questions About IBM’s Jeopardy-Playing Machine
Tuesday night at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the computer guys from IBM had to explain to an auditorium full of Jeopardy and computer geeks how their supercomputer Watson responded “What is Toronto????” in the category of “U.S. Cities.” And what was …
Continue ReadingHuman-Cyborg Matchup on Jeopardy: Ken Jennings vs. The Supercomputer
Monday night starts the long-awaited double-header between two of Jeopardy’s best players ever — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — and a machine — the IBM Watson supercomputer. The grand prize for the two matches, which will be shown over …
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