Data Moonshot, Watson on Jeopardy
Typing To The Moon
It's estimated we transcieved 295 exabytes of information. If this was placed on CD discs and stacked, it would reach the moon easily. 65 exabytes was transmitted through two-way communication systems such as cell phones in 2007. Using 2002 as a benchmark for when the Digital Age started, 94 percent of all memory was in digital form. 4 years later the numbers are even more staggering. What is an exabyte, you ask? That would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, of course.
Bad Boy Business
CBS news reports a quote from a recent interview: "Our company alone has a great number of hackers" as customers, Song said in a telephone interview. "I have several hundred of them among all my customers."
China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with more than 450 million people online. Experts say security for many computers in China is so poor that they are vulnerable to being taken over and used to hide the source of attacks from elsewhere.
Microsoft is testing Drag-and-Drop Virtual Worlds
Watson on Jeopardy Monday!
Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is up against Watson next week! And Watson isn't a small guy, he's literally the size of 10 refrigerators. The kewl thing about him is he's a computer. I wonder who will win? Fascinating when you think about the logic behind it all that drives the thing.
IBM loaded Watson up with millions of documents, and asked it thousands of Jeopardy questions, training it over time to look for patterns.
Sources:
Data Moonshot: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_hi_te/us_sci_digital_deluge
Microsft Drag-n-Drop VR Worlds: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/669.summary
Hackers: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/11/scitech/main20031502.shtml
Watson on Jeopardy: http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=423363
Last Updated (Friday, 18 February 2011 02:30)