Saturday, February 5, 2011

Let no one tell you that CS is not engineering...

The first major challenge for artificial intelligence was to defeat the chess grandmaster; it was accomplished in 1996 when Deep Blue Defeated Gary Kasparov. Now the next frontier is the Jeopardy game on the famous TV show. Can IBM's "Qwizzard" named Watson defeat the reigning champions of Jeopardy? Can it answer more than 90% of the questions correctly and also get to the buzzer before the humans do?

An article from NYT on this topic is enclosed can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/opinion/06powers.html?hp


I hope you read the article on the design of Mr. Watson. If you have read the article carefully, you would have noticed that the design of the Watson program has been hailed as a "..feat of engineering.."

So, let no one tell you that computer science is not engineering.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, that was ridiculous talk about Computer Science not deserving a place in Engineering.

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