Just As I Thought

Is it just me, or is IBM’s Jeo…

April 27, 2009

Is it just me, or is IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing Watson computer the decades-late personification of Emirac from “Desk Set?”

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The War with the Customer

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Right = Wrong

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It has become so commonplace that it is now fodder for jokes — the conservative Republicans who are caught in some sex scandal that ends up having a homosexual component. Funny how the ones who pound their chests and  [more...]

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