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My Puny Human Brain
Jeopardy! genius Ken Jennings on what it's like to play against a supercomputer.
By Ken Jennings
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, at 11:04 PM ET

Ken Jennings and 'Watson.' Click image to expand.When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM's "Watson" supercomputer in a special man-vs.-machine Jeopardy! exhibition match, I felt honored, even heroic. I envisioned myself as the Great Carbon-Based Hope against a new generation of thinking machines--which, if Hollywood is to believed, will inevitably run amok, build unstoppable robot shells, and destroy us all. But at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Lab, an Eero Saarinen-designed fortress in the snowy wilds of New York's Westchester County, where the shows taped last month, I wasn't the hero at all. I was the villain.

This was to be an away game for humanity, I realized as I walked onto the slightly-smaller-than-regulation Jeopardy! set that had been mocked up in the building's main auditorium. In the middle of the floor was a huge image of Watson's on-camera avatar, a glowing blue ball crisscrossed by "threads" of thought--42 threads, to be precise, an in-joke for Douglas Adams fans. The stands were full of hopeful IBM programmers and executives, whispering excitedly and pumping their fists every time their digital darling nailed a question. A Watson loss would be invigorating for Luddites and computer-phobes everywhere, but bad news for IBM shareholders.

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Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive games of Jeopardy! in 2004. He is the author of Brainiac, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, and the forthcoming Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks.

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Keynote lecture will be given by Prof. Hiroko Kataoka of California State University, Long Beach. Prof. Kataoka will lecture on "Differentiated Instruction in Japanese Language Schools: Making the Best of Unlimited Diversity and Limited Resources."

 

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For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
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Psalm 84:11

Sometimes when I share the Gospel, I get the response, "I know I need Christ, but I'm afraid he might call me somewhere I don't want to go." Many people genuinely believe that the day they accept Christ, God's going to call them to minister to penguins in Antarctica!

But let me tell you, living in Christ has been a more abundant life than I could've ever imagined! He's never taken me to a place without giving me his supernatural peace in heading that direction. And, he's never led me down a road that's caused me to look back and say, "I wish God hadn't done that."

I hope you know today that God wants you to enjoy life's blessings. If it's wholesome, if it's good, if it's godly, and if it will make you a better person, he wants you to have it! He doesn't hold back good things from you.

So when you look around and it seems everyone else is having all the fun, remember that God has blessed you with specific blessings for the specific purpose he has for you. And as you grow in your faithfulness to him and walk uprightly, he will bless you all the more! 

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