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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/congressman-beats-jeopardy-computer.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Rush Holt topped the IBM computer in a Jeopardy-style match of congressmen-vs-machine (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-congressman-beats-jeopardy-computer.jpg" alt="Rush Holt topped the IBM computer in a Jeopardy-style match of congressmen-vs-machine (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>It turns out that it really does take a rocket scientist to beat Watson, the Jeopardy-winning computer.</p>
<p>US representative Rush Holt of New Jersey &#8211; a five-time champion during the trivia show&#8217;s original run 35 years ago &#8211; topped the IBM computer in a Jeopardy-style match of congressmen-vs-machine held at a Washington hotel.</p>
<p>Though Mr Holt isn&#8217;t the first human to beat Watson, the victory adds to the 62-year-old Democrat&#8217;s already-impressive CV as a former State Department arms control expert and ex-leader of the federal Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.</p>
<p>He told reporters: &#8220;I wonder if Watson wasn&#8217;t having a low-voltage night, because I certainly didn&#8217;t expect to score higher than the computer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Holt built a lead in categories including &#8220;Presidential Rhyme Time&#8221;, in which the correct response to &#8220;Herbert&#8217;s military strategy&#8221; was &#8220;Hoover&#8217;s manoeuvres&#8221;. The congressman also correctly identified hippophobia as the fear of horses.</p>
<p>Watson beat him to the buzzer with &#8220;love&#8221; when prompted on what Ambrose Bierce described as &#8220;a temporary insanity curable by marriage&#8221;.</p>
<p>Holt played the first round along with Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican. At the end of the round, Holt had earned 8,600 dollars (£5,281) to Watson&#8217;s 6,200 dollars (£3,816).</p>
<p>But the computer ultimately triumphed in later rounds against the other representatives &#8211; New York Republican Nan Hayworth, Connecticut Democrat Jim Himes and Colorado Democrat Jared Polis &#8211; to amass a combined 40,300 dollars (£24,807) to the humans&#8217; 30,000 dollars (£18,467).</p>
<p>Watson, designed specifically to excel at the type of answers-and-questions format used on the game show Jeopardy, took 25 IBM scientists four years to create.</p>
<p>Humans have beat Watson before, including sparring matches with various players held in the fall to prepare for a televised match with top human Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter; and during rehearsals, when Jennings won at least once.</p>
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