Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson on Jeopardy - Here is the DeepQA spec

[Pavithra <pavithra_kenjige@xxxxxxxxx>]

Watson is powered by 10 racks of POWER 750 servers running Linux, containing 15 terabytes of RAM and 2,880 processor cores operating at 80 teraflops, IBM said. Each POWER7 system can run thousands of simultaneous analytics algorithms to sift through more than 15 terabytes of information stored in Watson’s “brain.” The data is stored in a DB2 database. Under the “hood,” Watson is all open-source, using Eclipse as the tools platform along with Apache’s Hadoop and Unstructured Information Management Architecture (an “IBM Research creation”) to analyze unstructured data, said Spang.

The advances in processing and computing technology built into the Power7 chips were a result of the work that IBM did while building Deep Blue, Spang said.

http://www.techrecur.com/2011/01/14/ibms-watson-supercomputer-beats-humans-in-jeopardy-practice-match/

--- On Sun, 2/13/11, Jack Park <jackpark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jack Park <jackpark@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson on Jeopardy
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 5:45 PM

The variant of Linux is Suse.

I fail to understand why all the disappointment.

I agree that media has its own way of blowing things out of
proportion, but, as one who is doing a thesis research project that
only barely scratches the edges of the innovation found inside Watson,
I can only stand in solid recognition of towering accomplishment.

I also salute the fact that they long ago released one of the core
ingredients, UIMA, to the open source arena and even helped a lot of
solid projects in using it. They've created an entire ecosystem of
harvesting tools and concepts around that, then committed corporate
resources to figure out how to use it well.  I see nothing to be
disappointed in with Watson. We are already benefiting from the few
papers that have been released in relation to technical details. A
recent conference on learning by reading (think: DARPA BAA on Machine
Reading) has a paper by Chris Welty and his colleagues that's been
useful to me. I look forward to more such releases.

Jack

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Patrick Durusau <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jack,
>
> On 2/13/2011 5:00 PM, Jack Park wrote:
>> Returning to the original thread, I've noticed that the Web is crowing
>> over the fact that Watson is running under Linux.
>>
>
> Do you know if Linux was chosen so the Watson team would not have to pay
> licensing fees to the AS/400 division? ;-)
>
> Minsky did not sound bitter to me.
>
> Disappointed that the news media has bestowed the AI crown on a system
> with no more understanding of Jeopardy than an orrery has of
> astrophysics, but not bitter.
>
> Disappointment is understandable when a lifetime of work is made into a
> carnival sideshow type event. Jeopardy no more measures intelligence
> than a standard IQ test. Both measure being good at the skills required
> by each one. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Hope you are having a great weekend!
>
> Patrick
>> Jack
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Peter Yim<peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Thank you, Bill.
>>>
>>> I concur with Bill Andersen that this spun-off conversation about the
>>> military or politicians should be taken elsewhere. So, please.
>>>
>>> The subject is "iBM Watson on Jeopardy" and that's a fascinating topic
>>> ... continue on that by all means.
>>>
>>> Thanks&  regards.  =ppy
>>>
>>> Peter Yim
>>> Co-convener, ONTOLOG
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2011 7:56 AM, "Bill Andersen"<andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>> Ahem... Anyone in this conversation been in the military or have credentials in military history? One good reason I'd rather not see this conversation on ontolog. Another is that it's way out of scope and bordering on political - and those of you who know me know you don't want me to go there.
>>>>
>>>> So please take this somewhere else (but include me - I'd love to get into this one)
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>>> On Feb 13, 2011, at 8:18, "John F. Sowa"<sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Vincent and Rich,
>>>>>
>>>>> JFS
>>>>>>> That is also true of people. As the saying goes, generals are
>>>>>>> very good at fighting the last war, but not the current one.
>>>>> VW
>>>>>> If that saying were true, there'd be ZERO
>>>>>> national security - for any country.
>>>>> You need to study military history. The leaders who win
>>>>> are the ones who can innovate to meet changing conditions.
>>>>> But most leaders in every field aren't innovative -- they
>>>>> just repeat what worked last time.
>>>>>
>>>>> RC
>>>>>> we are buying a bunch of F-35's to fight international terrorism.
>>>>> That is comparable to the French building the Maginot line after WW I.
>>>>> It's a hugely expensive waste of money on systems that would have
>>>>> been useful in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>> VW
>>>>>> I'll just repeat one of my earlier statements: "There are lots
>>>>>> of sayings among us which should be relegated to the past -
>>>>>> and left there - where they belong..."
>>>>> You can repeat that, but it won't make it true.
>>>>>
>>>>> A better guideline is one of my favorite quotations from
>>>>> Alfred North Whitehead:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Every great truth is only half true."
>>>>>
>>>>> That means that every proverb, principle, or ideology has
>>>>> to be re-evaluated in terms of current conditions in order
>>>>> to determine which half is appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>> The most dangerous offenders are politicians who repeat
>>>>> half truths until they make the voters believe them.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
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