Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer, is going to make a massively parallel impact on an unsuspecting world in February, when the powerful Q&A machine goes up against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, on national television. Jennings, you'll recall, won 74 games in a row in the 2004-05 season, a DiMaggian record that will likely never be broken. Rutter, who has never lost a Jeopardy! match, won $3.25 million in prize money, also a record, by taking first place in three different Tournaments of Champions. These guys are the best there are at what they do-unlike yours truly, who was doing quite well until blowing the final question in my one and only Jeopardy! appearance on Boxing Day 2007.
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