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MAheSh KUMAr/AP IMAgeS (FArMer); SoNY-JeoPArDY vIA AP IMAgeS (KeN JeNNINgS); JeoPArDY Set CoUrteSY oF SoNY PICtUreS teLevISIoN; MeDIA BAKerY (CoMPUter)<br />
news trends<br />
an indian farmer sits on the dried-up bed of a man-made lake outside Hyderabad. A drought in many parts of the country, along<br />
with India’s soaring population, rapid industrialization, and farms that have turned to water-intensive crops like sugar cane and rice, have<br />
created a severe water crisis. Most of India’s drinking-water sources are contaminated by sewage and agricultural runoff, and according<br />
to the United Nations, more than 2 million Indian children under the age of 5 die each year, largely due to a shortage of clean water. •<br />
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show is the latest<br />
challenge for<br />
intelligence. In 1997, a<br />
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by I.B.M. beat world<br />
at lightning speed.<br />
Computer scientists say<br />
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developing a Jeopardy! Jeopardy!, on the<br />
computers to be able Ken Jennings—the<br />
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record for<br />
computer program other hand, requires to converse in human longest-reigning<br />
Jeopardy!<br />
to compete against a program that can terms, and we’re not Jeopardy! champ—who<br />
wins?<br />
humans. If the program deal with analogies, there yet,” says the won 74 consecutive<br />
wins, it will be a major puns, and concepts like I.B.M. team leader, David times and collected over<br />
leap forward for artificial size and location—all Ferrucci. Jeopardy!’s $2.5 million in 2004. •<br />
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 3
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