A computer will be appearing on Jeopardy next week (Feb. 14th-16th). The interesting part is that the computer is programmed to understand "natural language." In a practice round, the computer beat two Jeopardy champions -- only underperforming in a children's book section.
Another interesting story on man vs. computers -- and the game of GO, which is historically difficult for computers to play... (also from the CNN article):
