Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Supercomputer Watson wins Person of the Year
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Galih
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| Supercomputer Watson wins Person of the Year |
Some are very well known, including in Indonesia. Groupon who got Webby Breakout of the Year. Dropbox won the category Best Practices. The website of National Geographic won for Best Use of Photography. Beyond that, TechCrunch and Engadget also can award.
Organizers also gave special awards to a number of figures considered instrumental in the announcement of the 15th Webby Awards this year was held on Monday (13/06/2011) night in New York, USA. For example the award Lifetime Achievement Award given to Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone.
Even award Webby Person of the Year this year is very unique because it fell to Watson. He is not the name of the person, but the name of an IBM supercomputer made recently won a television quiz show Jeopardy and beat the man.
In fact, Watson had to give testimony when announced as the recipient of the award. "Person of the year, ironic," said Watson. As a computer savvy, Watson was created by engineers at IBM to be able to process data and voice information and answer questions posed to him.
Watson's comment was immediately praised Lisa Kudrow, the artist who host the evening. As he joked, Lisa Kudrow suggested that the machine is out with IPAD for more style.
The award for Watson would be a separate prize for IBM. Because the company's technology will be for days to be exact to-100 on Thursday (16/06/2011).
Webby Awards also give awards to Ushahidi.com, sites that reported the events in chronological brutality in Kenya. Angry Birds also lined up to star as the best mobile games. In addition to the jury selected the best award, also given awards for the Internet user's choice. The full list can be seen at the Webby Awards 2011.
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