IBM's Watson to Play on Jeopardy

http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/02/10/Watson-vs-human-brain-tale-of-the-tape.aspx?s=gcndaily_110211&Page=1

This is interesting because the computer will be listening and following the conversation to participate.  With the supporting computer is 10 racks  of IBM 750 servers supporting 2,880 processors and 15 terabytes of RAM, I think we can safely say, it may be a little while before you can do this at home.  However, they are using Linux for the OS.

Some interesting comparisons between the computers and the humans:

Computer                     Humans

80 teraflops                  100 petaflops
15 terabytes                  6.4 terabytes

Below is the link to IBM's page on Watson:

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/index.html