IBM's Watson Goes To College To Extend Abilities

An anonymous reader writes in with news that IBM's Jeopardy winning supercomputer is going back to school"A modified version of the powerful IBM Watson computer system, able to understand natural spoken language and answer complex questions, will be provided to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, making it the first university to receive such a system. IBM announced Wednesday that the Watson system is intended to enable upstate New York-based RPI to find new uses for Watson and deepen the systems' cognitive computing capabilities - for example by broadening the volume, types, and sources of data Watson can draw upon to answer questions."

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Software updates are the most likely to infect PC

[mauriceh]

For example, installing Java updates on a PC installs, by default teh ASK Toolbar and makes ASK the default web search engine.

You know, Java? That crap from Cisco?

http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/ask_toolbar.xml