After several iterations and teaching the machine what answers are accurate, it is expected that Watson will develop enough expertise to assist a doctor in a practical situation.
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The market is a discounting machine on what the future brings.
The businesspeople who know what questions would be the most valuable to answer have no idea of what machine data is, let alone what it can tell them.
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Dell hasn't abandoned the quality that makes Dell, Dell: the ability to cram a whole lot of capability into a machine at what will ultimately be a nice price.
They dropped again in the evening as Prof Randell had arranged for one of Colossus's creators, Allen "Doc" Coombs, to attend and answer questions about the machine and what it did.
TIGR's contribution is what will go in the machine, and what will be done with the results.
We sat in on an in-person demonstration of the machine recently and came away suitably impressed with what the machine can do--though we do have to wonder if consumers indeed want to do all these things on the PC.
Traveling down from the top of the hierarchy to the base sensations, he figures, the neocortex functions as a prediction machine, anticipating what we will see next, where the ball is headed or how an experiment might turn out.
But in an attempt to try to lay upon it some objective boundaries, we threw some numbers into the number-crunching machine to see what came out, to see if we could figure out at least one way of determine the best Super Bowl champ since 2000.
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To try to sell it, Jobs made a short digital film to show what the machine could do.
What this machine allows us to do is work around the clock to address the question: how many wells can you look at?
We are not going to start, with a calculator and an adding machine, tracking down what people received from other sources, other funds, other help from relatives, savings.
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And speed is what this machine needs for applications like Adobe 's (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) Photoshop and Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) own Final Cut Pro for editing video.
But what about machine-to-machine (M2M)?
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You know, I went back in the Wayback Machine to find out what we were doing a year ago, and I went on the blog, and a year ago today, we were just having our little morning meetings and the YouTube debates were up.
Yes the Lumia 920 comes across as great looking and well built device, but has WP8 and the publicity machine behind it got what it takes to lure millions of existing smartphone users away from the familiar comfort of iOS and Android environments when upgrade time comes around?
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Mr. STEWART: Who is to know whether that machine counted every vote accurately or not if the voter has no way of verifying what went on inside the machine?
Once the glamour-adulation machine is turned off, what will we be left with?
Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.
The documents don't tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like.
Simply put, what is a perfect machine in terms of engineering specs may be useless, if customers happen to think so.
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In his 1976 book The Dream Machine he looked back fondly on what he considered the golden age of American automaking--1946 to 1965.
So, if LinkedIn and Twitter have replaced the fax machine of 10 years ago, what might a resume look like a decade from now?
Campbell says she's not dropping the case until she finds out what happened to her machine -- and she wants ol' Blue to train its employees on privacy issues and revamp its warranty policy.
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What's left is machine-ready silicon atop a layer of insulator.
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Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.
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