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10 Instances of Alex Trebek Being a Total Jerk

Emerald Catron — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:03:04 +0000

If you don’t watch ‘Jeopardy!,’ then you don’t know that Alex Trebek can be a just a *touch* condescending to the contestants. Although to be fair, it’s hard not to come across as condescending when you’re basically telling people they’re wrong over and over again for half an hour. Frankly, this is a big part [...]

Teen 'Jeopardy!' Contestant Answers Final Question Like a Champ

Kyle Dowling — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:12:19 +0000

Finally, 'Jeopardy!' gets entertaining!

Who would've thought that one of the best 'Final Jeopardy!' moments to ever grace the stage would come from not a scholar or professor, but a teenager? Leonard Cooper -- the recent 'Jeopardy!' Teen Tournament winner -- gave host Alex Trebek, his fellow contestants and the audience a hearty laugh with his Final Jeopardy! answer, one that was surely unexpected.

Watson Gets A REAL Job

The Web Guy — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:32:50 +0000

After beating two "human" contestants on Jeopardy, the computer Watson has been offered a real job!
The agreement calls for the companies to combine IBM’s Deep Question Answering, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities with Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding, which is basically speech recognition tuned to the unique needs of doctors and other health care pros.
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