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To the degree there was a human face of Watson, the "Jeopardy!" computer champion, it was David Ferrucci.

"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.

On Jan . 23 Mr. Kasparov will play a six-game match in New York against Deep Junior, the reigning world 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.

We meet Claude Shannon, a mid-20th-century American engineer who invented information theory, mapped the mathematical basis of genetics, programmed a chess computer, championed the neglected science of juggling and built a maze-solving robot rat with a total memory of 75 bits.

Compass is part of long-standing effort known as neuromorphic engineering, an approach to build computers championed in the nineteen-eighties by the Caltech engineer Carver Mead.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Compass is part of long-standing effort known as neuromorphic engineering, an approach to build computers championed in the nineteen-eighties by the Caltech engineer Carver Mead.

The play focuses on 16-year-old Wynne Ledbetter, a computer wiz and video game champion in a suburb north of Chicago, who, with noble intentions but dubious means, is out to save his family, which is not so much dysfunctional as disfigured.

On Sunday, he begins a six-game $1 million match against an Israeli program, Deep Junior, the three-time world computer chess champion.

He also consulted programmers of the era depicted in the film, including Robert Hyatt, a creator of Cray Blitz, the world computer chess champion in 1983 and 1986, and David Slate, who helped write the program Nuchess.

To hunt bugs and meet robots: The World Science Festival continues this weekend in New York City with events that include a bug hunt on Governor's Island and a robotics panel featuring Watson, the computer Jeopardy champion.