In 2011 a Program Named Watson Running on an IBM

question 26

Multiple Choice

In 2011 a program named Watson running on an IBM supercomputer

• A) decoded the human genome for the first time.
• B) became the first computer program to take the job of a software engineer.
• C) won the World Crossword Puzzle Championship sponsored by The New York Times.
• D) defeated the two most successful human Jeopardy! champions in a three-game match.
• E) passed the Turing Test in a competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.

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