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“I.B.M.’s groundbreaking question-answering system, running on roughly 2,500 parallel processor cores, each able to perform up to 33 billion operations a second, is playing a pair of “Jeopardy!” matches against the show’s top two living players, to be aired on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. “

“At the National Academies summit exploring ways to use entertainment technologies to foster science education,  Will Wright, the mind behind  The Sims and  Spore, gave a warp-speed talk laying out why game design has great potential in this arena.”