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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

Dashe & Thomson

In fact, the competition wasn’t close; the computer came away with nearly four times as much money as the closest nearest competitor. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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IBM Watson And The Future Of Learning

Upside Learning

I’d like it to be able to do five things initially: Answer questions – Simply answer questions based on its best judgment and confidence using the internet’s data space and sets; and respond in human language with a concise but wide-ranging answer.

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Join the Internet Time Alliance for a Day in San Francisco

Clark Quinn

The day following DevLearn , Saturday, November 6th , the five members of the Internet Time Alliance are holding a retreat to share insights and plan for the forthcoming year. We’re meeting at the Internet Time Lab, across the Bay from San Francisco in Berkeley. Then we spotted a potential pitfall: the echo-chamber effect.

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Big IBM/Second Life Announcement this Week!

Kapp Notes

He let everyone know on his blog posting The i-web Singularity Redux that at Virtual Worlds III this week the announcement was made that Second Life has worked out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. IBM announced today that it was changing that.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Using Decreasing Attention Spans to your Advantage

Origin Learning

Research studies state that in the next couple of years, 80% of traffic on the Internet will be dedicated to just videos. IBM Leads the Way. IBM the global tech-giant has a pre-defined set of rules called IBM Social Computing Guidelines, which puts the onus on its employees for self-regulatory posting of content.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. All Internet addresses were verified at the time of publication. link] March 16-19, 2009 International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS2009), Fukuoka, Japan.