Ken Jennings
A: This man, who is exclusively represented by APB, is the all-time game show champion of the world.
Q: Who is... Ken Jennings?
Having made over 70 appearances on Jeopardy!, Jennings has become known as the master Jeopardy! player for his amazing memory, unparalleled buzzer technique, and the fact that he has approached a record near $2.5 million in winnings – an amount which is still climbing.
A Seattle native who grew up in South Korea, Jennings watched Jeopardy! regularly on the US Armed Forces TV network, convinced that he could one day be a contestant. Now, with a winning streak that has made him a celebrity, this game show sensation has received much media coverage, having appeared on The Late Show to present Letterman's "Top 10 List" and, during his run, increased Jeopardy! ratings by 62 percent.
Formerly a member of Brigham Young University's College Bowl team in the 1990s, Jennings now writes and edits literature questions for the National Academic Quiz Tournament. Also an avid comic book and movie buff, Jennings' day job is as a software engineer at CHG, a healthcare placement firm. Most recently, Jennings challenged the aptly-named "Watson"—an IBM computer designed to beat humans at Jeopardy!—and authored the geography book Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks.
Now, APB is proud to exclusively offer you the chance to bring this quiz master to your next event. Can you stump the champ? Could you be the next Ken Jennings?
Topics
The Human Brain in Jeopardy: Computers That "Think"
In 2011, when IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat top human players at the quiz show Jeopardy!, computer programmer and quiz show champ Ken Jennings became the first person ever to lose his job to one of these new "thinking" machines. But he won't be the last. Jennings uses his experiences battling IBM's "Watson" as a way to explore the changes in tomorrow's business climate that Watson will introduce: computers that can diagnose disease, provide customer support, perform business analytics... and dominate TV quiz shows, of course.
Elementary, My Dear Watson: Playing Jeopardy! Against the World's Smartest Machine
Ken Jennings, a former computer programmer, best-selling author, and 74-game Jeopardy! champ, was hauled out of quiz show retirement in 2011 to represent the human race against Watson, a super-intelligent supercomputer designed by IBM for one purpose alone: to beat the world's best players at Jeopardy! Jennings' behind-the-scenes look at that epic match poses important questions for anyone interested in – or, thanks to Hollywood, terrified by – the idea of machines that can reason and learn. Why is Watson such a technological milestone? Does it really "think" in the same way that a human does? What does its remarkable ability tell us about the future of artificial intelligence, and of human intelligence?
Who is... Ken Jennings?
Nothing is Trivial
Can You Put A Price On Knowledge?
The Rewards Of Curiosity
Words of Wisdom from the Quiz Master
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