Call it a huge advancement in artificial intelligence or the first step towards the creation of our robot overlords.

The IBM supercomputer Watson, which you may have seen in recent commercials, bested game show legend Ken Jennings in a Jeopardy test run. Jennings is renowned as the best player in that show’s history, piling up an insane 74 game winning streak in 2004-05. Watson also defeated Brad Rutter, a contestant whose Jeopardy winnings exceed $3 million.

IBM introduced a new game for university students and young professionals today. The game is called Innov8, a “serious game” available free to those interested in the information technology career field. “The best kept secret in the world of computer and video games is the rise of a movement – now in the thousands –= more »