IBM wants its Jeopardy-winning computer on phones

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IBM's Watson computer first gained notoriety when it beat two human Jeopardy champions at their own game in 2011. Besting chess grandmaster Garry Kasperov was enough of a feat for Watson

cousin Deep Blue, but the trivia questions featured on Jeopardy were thought to be too subtle for a computer. But Watson was built to do just that: process human language, and even "learn"

by building and testing hypotheses.

Now the company will hold the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a competition to induce developers to create apps using the the powerful artificial intelligence platform. Big Blue will

offer the three winners consulting help to build their software.

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