A week in Cuzco, Peru brings the following gallery. Usually, the visual distance between Traveler and Place is pretty large. But in true onecamera style, the job of the telephoto lens is replaced by just getting in there.
Ornette Coleman’s recording with Don Cherry is dark inspiration for a series of vacation snaps in the “City by the Bay.”
A brief getaway down south to see how things might have turned out, given different circmustances. See the Gallery.
In February of 2011, an IBM computing system named WATSON competed in an exhibition match against the top human players of the American quiz show JEOPARDY! Ken Jennings (who has that show’s longest winning streak at 74 consecutive games) and Brad Rutter (who had won the most prize money, $3.2 million) faced off against WATSON in three nights of televised play at the TJ Watson Research Center, the IBM labs at Yorktown Heights, NY.
I had the chance to photograph the WATSON research team for two years leading up to the IBM JEOPARDY! Challenge as part of my work at Ogilvy. The story of how WATSON was designed and readied for the competition is documented in a series of films directed by Paul Bozymowski, and a compelling book from Stephen Baker—the photographs here complement the behind-the-scenes story of a revolutionary advance in computing: the development of a system that can understand natural language, and provide confident answers to questions posed to it in real time.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:16PM