Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

[Tom Metro]

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  NEW YORK -- In the "Jeopardy!" battle of man vs. machine, man and
  machine were neck-and-neck on Monday.

  Human player Brad Rutter and the supercomputer named Watson ended an
  initial round tied at $5,000. The other challenger, human Ken
  Jennings, was far behind with $2,000.

  Watson, named for IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is powered by 10 racks
   of computer servers running the Linux operating system.
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  The exhibition matches will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday on the
  popular trivia TV game show. Two complete games will be aired, with
  the winner collecting $1 million.

  The bouts were taped at the IBM research center in Yorktown Heights,
  N.Y., last month. Both men and Watson have managed to keep the final
  outcome under wraps.