IBM Watson Sander Siniorg 134676IAPB Description • Question answering computing system • Can process 500 gigabytes per second • Hardware cost about $3 million • Sources of information: encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles, and literary works Operation • Parses the clues into fragments • Executes thousands algorithms simultaneously • The more algorithms that find the same answer the more likely Watson is to be correct • Checks if potential solution makes sense • Dynamic learning History
TAO Track At Once TAP Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service TAPI Telephony Applications Programming Interface .tar Tape Archive (archived file name extension) [Unix] .tar.Z Compressed Archived files (file name extension) [Unix] TAS Telephone Access Server + Total Access System TASM Turbo Assembler [Borland] TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Transceiver/Receiver Interface TB Terabyte (1,024 gigabytes) (One Thousand Billion characters of information) T/B Top and Bottom TBBS The Bread Board System (BBS) TBGA Tape Ball Grid Array .TBK Toolbook (file name extension) TBS Time-Based Sampling TBU Tape Backup Unit TC Test Control + Transmission Control TCL Tool Command Language TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation TCO Total Cost of Ownership TCP Tape-Carrier Package TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance [Intel]
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