Anti-Nuke Scientist Rush Holt Beats IBM’s Watson in 'Jeopardy'

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NJ Democrat Rep. Rush Holt Beats IBM’s Watson in ‘Jeopardy’

Edited on Tue Mar-01-11 06:51 AM by Hissyspit
Source: Asbury Park Press

Rep. Rush Holt beats IBM’s Watson in ‘Jeopardy!’

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Michael Symons
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt — an actual rocket scientists, as his supporters like to tout on bumper stickers — tonight topped the IBM supercomputer Watson in a round of Jeopardy! down in Washington.

Holt — who was a five-time Jeopardy! winner more than 30 years ago and joked midday that Watson was “just a little Atari” when he made his game-show splash – tweeted almost an hour ago about the experience: “I played a full round against @IBMWatson tonight and was proud to hold my own: the final tally was Holt $8,600, Watson $6,200.”

Holt was joined in the game by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who tweeted that he didn’t mind losing to a nuclear physicist and computer that famously defeated some of the TV game show’s top champs: “I seriously CANNOT believe that @rushholt beat @ibmwatson,” he wrote. Also playing: Reps. Bill Cassidy, Nan Hayworth and Jared Polis.

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He's not just smart, he's also wise:

Rush Holt on Energy Policy, Barack Obama and John Holdren

"Nuclear proliferation is a problem that humankind has not solved. I don’t want to see us get deeper into a dependency on nuclear power until we demonstrate to each other that we can solve the problem of nuclear proliferation. Because if we don’t, that could be our greatest undoing."

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/rush-holt-on-energy-policy-barack-obama-and-john-holdren