IBM researchers take on a vast range of scientific endeavors in their everyday work. A handful of the resulting innovations have emerged from the lab light to cross into the limelight, capturing along the way awed audiences and ardent admirers.
Game faces of IBM Research
Deep Blue plays chess
In May 1997, millions of chess fans watched in fascination as a system called IBM Deep
Watson plays Jeopardy!
To be successful on the game show Jeopardy! a contestant has to possess an enormous range of knowledge, the ability to understand wordplay,and the agility to dig out an answer quickly. Researchers at the Watson Research Center created a question answering technology that put this assumption to the test, combining natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and massively parallel computation to create a system that can compete with the best human performance.