Jeopardy! Winnings Spur IBM and Scripps Research Institute Collaboration to Fight Against Malaria
Project to use 2 million PCs to crunch numbers, compress 100 years of research into just one
LA JOLLA, CA and ARMONK, NY – IBM’s Watson computing system broke new ground earlier this year when it defeated two celebrated human competitors on the Jeopardy! game show. Now, The Scripps Research Institute is hoping to do something equally novel but more critical to human health with part of the prize money from that tournament: Find a cure for drug-resistant malaria. And it’s asking for the public’s help. (more…)