The Magic of Watson, IBM’s Question-Answering Supercomputer

A computer that can have a conversation with you in real, human language is a hallmark of science fiction films, but has always seemed ludicrously unrealistic. Here’s the thing: IBM just built one.
With the goal of creating a computer that can win at Jeopardy, a group at IBM has been hard at work on Watson for years.
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Research aims to harness solar energy to purify water
A new project in Saudi Arabi — being spearheaded by IBM and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) — seeks to create a water desalination plant that runs off solar energy. The location of the project is significant, since Saudi Arabia is apparently the largest producer of desalinated water.
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IBM hits graphene transistor breakthrough
IBM Research on Friday will announce that it has demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest frequency (100 GigaHertz) so far.
Graphene is a special form of graphite, consisting of a layer of carbon atoms packed in honeycomb lattice.
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Gadgets of Our Future Will Continue To Get Smaller and Faster Thanks To Nanowires
Computers have been getting smaller for years, yet they cram the same amount of power if not more. Essentially that is Moore’s Law, or the theory that every year the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubles.
Now that is (or was) expected to halt at some point, meaning our computers and gadgets would start remaining the same size.
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Krang Rejoices: Artificial Brain Ten Years Away From Reality
Scientists are claiming that a functional, artificial brain is only a decade away. This prediction correlates with the above chart, according to which our current computing capabilities limit us to…simulated lizard brains.
Photo by Journal of Evolution and Technology
Using an IBM Blue Gene machine with 10,000 processors, the folks at the Blue Brain Project are creating simulations to figure out exactly how our brains work.
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