In the movie, there is a Levy-like character named Pat Henderson, a master who makes a similar bet involving a champion computer program called Alliance.
Noll Scott, who has died in a car crash in Brazil, aged 51, was an aficionado of Latin America, journalist, traveller, boy chess champion, computer expert, and Sheffield Wednesday supporter.
Gregory says this: "And that, of all people, the Obama people who championed computer analytics to win reelection, (you know, look at the cover of New Yorker) look so retro when it comes to technology".
He championed computers at a time when the government still registered fax machines.
25 December Championed by computer programmer Richard Stallman, Grav-Mass Day celebrates the work of Isaac Newton whose birthday falls on this festive date (in the old Julian calendar).
The firm recently snapped up Nest, a maker of smart thermostats and home alarms, for $3.2 billion, and is championing wearable computers such as its Google Glass smart specs, which can now work with prescription lenses.
To the degree there was a human face of Watson, the "Jeopardy!" computer champion, it was David Ferrucci.
On Jan . 23 Mr. Kasparov will play a six-game match in New York against Deep Junior, the reigning world computer champion.
"Games are a great motivator for artificial intelligence — they push things forward," said David Ferrucci, the I.B.M. researcher who led the development of Watson, the "Jeopardy!" computer champion.
From now on, if the answer is "the computer champion on "Jeopardy!," the question will be, "What is Watson?" For I.B.M., the showdown was not merely a well-publicized stunt and a $1 million prize, but proof that the company has taken a big step toward a world in which intelligent machines will understand and respond to humans, and perhaps inevitably, replace some of them.
Historically, Microsoft has been the biggest champion of tablet computers, which let people scrawl on a computer screen with a stylus just as they would on paper.
