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Most people don’t think of working at IBM as a very exciting\u00a0endeavor. \u00a0At times, I’d be hard pressed to convince them otherwise. \u00a0However, there’s something very special about what a large (country-sized) company with a wealth of talent and resources can do to change the world and the way we think about technology. \u00a0When I was an intern at IBM in 2004, I had the opportunity to work with an artifact of one of those game-changing demonstrations of technological prowess.<\/div>\n
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I was working for the “multimodal technologies group,” specifically on voice-enabled web browsers for mobile devices. \u00a0While it really didn’t pan out (the way we were doing it, that is), the idea was that a voice interface to a web browser on your cell phone or PDA could end up making navigation much easier while walking, driving, etc. \u00a0We ended up creating a few applications to demonstrate this functionality in ways that would grab people’s attention.<\/div>\n
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One of the things I worked on was a voice-enabled chess game. \u00a0This was not just any chess game, however, because it had some “help” at the server end. \u00a0Sitting on a shelf at the Austin site was one of the nodes left over from the\u00a0Deep Blue<\/a>\u00a0machine that beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997. \u00a0It was only one node of many that actually played the game together, but it had the custom “chess hardware” in it and the software still installed. \u00a0I coded up something that would put a web services API on the chess application and allow a web client to play against the computer. \u00a0After we got it working, one of the people in the lab figured he could probably beat just a single node, so he gave it a try. \u00a0The game was over pretty quick.<\/div>\n
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IBM recently announced their proposed “Jeopardy Challenge” which has a similar goal: beat a human at something mental by brute force. \u00a0However, this one makes Deep Blue look like a walk in the park, if you ask me. \u00a0Take a look:<\/div>\n
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It seems like an impossible task, but we have to get there at some point I suppose. \u00a0I’ll be watching closely to see what develops and how “Watson” does!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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