Magazine Preview - Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a document where you might find the answer. It has to pluck out the correct answer itself.

long, but very interesting read on IBM's "answering machine": http://nyti.ms/czrluK - big data, parallel queries, etc... aka, google. – Ilya Grigorik (igrigorik) http://twitter.com/igrigorik/statuses/16866126164