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From: sxm@philabs.Philips.Com (Sandeep Mehta)
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Subject: Re: Watson A question of where/what/how much
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Date: 23 Mar 88 13:03:52 GMT
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In article <13379@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) writes:
>
> Well I have a very strange question to ask some of you know it alls.
>
> I am looking for information on a Hardware/Software package called
> Watson.  What this program is to do is a computerized answering
> machine. 

That is exactly what one of the projects at the MIT Media Lab is doing.
For more info get hold of the book MIT Media Lab (Viking Press) or the
video(disc/tape) from the Media Lab in Cambridge. I dont know if they
are willing to give it out, but it may lead to clues on other packages.

sandeep
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