A couple months ago, I blogged about David Ferrucci’s excellent keynote at this year’s Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) in San Jose, CA — noting how Ferrucci stepped through the creation of Watson, from conception of the “Jeopardy!“ challenge in 2004 to the supercomputer’s nationally televised victory earlier this year.
Well, now, ACM has made Ferrucci’s talk — along with the rest of this year’s FCRC plenaries — available through its Digital Library free of cost. Simply click here and create a free profile to either download or stream the 40-minute presentation.
!["Building Watson" by David Ferrucci, Watson Principal Investigator and IBM Fellow, IBM Research [video available for free at the ACM Digital Library]](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/buildingwatson.jpg "\"Building Watson\" by David Ferrucci, Watson Principal Investigator and IBM Fellow, IBM Research [video available for free at the ACM Digital Library]")
And read the original summary of Ferrucci’s talk after the jump…
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