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Watson 'Jeopardy!' computer takes on crossword challenge

"Jeopardy!" was elementary for Watson, IBM's multimillion-dollar artificial intelligence supercomputer that trounced several of the quiz game's champions last year.

But can a computer beat the world's quickest minds in crosswords, a game defined as much by humor and wordplay as logic and knowledge?

Jeopardy champ 'Watson' computer to be doctor's helper

Meet your doctor's new assistant: He listens well, asks a few questions and reads 100 million pages per second.

Or at least that's the vision IBM has for Watson, its computer system that in February bested two human champions to win the "Jeopardy!" TV show -- a challenge that required encyclopedic knowledge and split-second answers.

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