IBM Watson competes against Jeopardy champions and wins. CIIR worked with IBM on their QA technology.

IBM Watson competes against Jeopardy champions and wins. [Feb. 17, 2011] IBM’s Watson defeats two top Jeopardy contestants in first-ever human vs. machine “Jeopardy” competition. CIIR worked with IBM on the Question Answering technology behind the company’s intelligent computing system that used Indri as one of its two main document search engines (see 2007 entry above). CIIR Ph.D. alum Eric Brown is one of the leaders on the Watson research team.