The Watson system used in the actual Jeopardy game show was powered by this many P 750s.
What is 90
100
Month & Year the Watson Division was formed.
What is Aug 2011
100
IBM Watson Solutions was named after this IBMer.
Who was Thomas J. Watson
100
IBM was founded in this year.
What is 1911 over a century ago
100
City whose largest airport was named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle.
( Hint -we know it’s not Toronto)
What is Chicago
200
As of the May MOR, Watson Solutions has this many patents.
What is 58?
200
This was the first Ready For Watson client
What is Seton
200
Name the 4 Watson Distinguished Engineers.
Who are Peter Bouchard, Jeff Eisen, Carl Kraenzel and Bill Rapp?
200
This is the location of the IBM Research Center.
What is Yorktown NY?
200
Watson has this many followers on Facebook
What is 30,000?
300
The Watson Core that ran on 2880 cores while playing Jeopardy! now runs on this many cores lowering the barrier to market & customer adoption
What is 56?
300
The Milestone 1 code base which will become the basis for the Watson Solutions Oncology & Financial projects as well as the core for all future Watson Solutions Core team development, was released on this date? (month/yr)
What is May 2012?
300
Deep Blue (the chess grand challenge) scored a victory over this chess champion in 1997.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
300
Year IBM opened its first office in Austin
What is 1937?
300
The Ready for Watson Program is based on 5 key factors:
1. Use Case Alignment
2. Industry Alignment
3. Defined Progression Path to Watson
4. Compliance with Watson reference architecture
and this 5th factor_________
What is Business Model Adoption?
400
Modified M1 achieves this many questions per minute on single LPAR (equivalent of 175 questions per minute across the reference platform)
What is 25?
400
On this date, the first Watson solutions client contract with Wellpoint was signed.
What is 9/8/11
400
He is Watson's chief medical expert/scientist?
Who is Martin Kohn?
400
After this Act was passed in the 1930s, millions of punched cards were processed in “the largest accounting operation of all time.”
What is Social Security Act?
400
The first Watson User Conference will be hosted in November of 2012 to coincide with this key Austin event.
What is Austin's first F1 Race.
500
Watson leverages the power of this to perform lexical analysis as part of natural language processing.
What is IBM Content Analytics
500
On this date, the first live episode of Jeopardy featuring the contestant "Watson"
What is 2/14/11?
500
He is considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence .
Who is Alan Turing
500
This expression which has become a reference to
IBM did not originate within the company. The term first began appearing in the press during the early 1980s
and is related to the blue covers on the IBM mainframes and similar products of the 1960s.
Gene.
What is "Big Blue"
500
Our fearless leader, Manoj Saxena, attended this university.