Watch your back, Ken Jennings: a supercomputer is gunning for your crown as the greatest Jeopardy player ever. And it'll have its chance in February. (It's about time, too.)
IBM is no stranger to trumping humans at their own game. Back in '97, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov (though Kasparov cried fowl and managed a draw against the machine later). Now DeepQA, the company's question...