Watson? Commercial – Not Super – Computer

Now that IBM’s Watson has pounded the best human Jeopardy competitors into a fine slurry, let’s take stock. Our human proxies took their ass-kicking in good spirits, with Ken Jennings writing on his ‘Final Jeopardy’ card, “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” (For the sake of adding a bit more inane trivia, the Jeopardy answer for his phrase would be “Who was Kent Brockman on The Simpsons?”)

And I believe I’ve found the best Register reader comment so far: In response to this story’s subtitle, “Robots will keep us as pets,” came this clever bit: “There already are humans kept as pets by machines – they’re called ‘iPhone owners!’” LinkOfHyrule, we’re not worthy.

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2010 x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey: Virtualization

Gabriel Consulting Unveils Key Findings of 2010 x86 Server Vendor Research Enterprise IT x86 Virtualization Moves Paying Off, But Management Satisfaction Lags. Plenty of Virtualization Diversity: 71% Using Two or More Virtualization Mechanisms. BEAVERTON, Oregon – Feb. 16, 2011 —…

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