Richard Watson

Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson (eds.): Renewing Europe’s housing

Renewing Europe’s Housing provides an extensive overview of contemporary housing renewal policies and practices in Europe during the last four decades. The subject is of high and still increasing importance. During the time covered by the book, housing and urban policies in most European countries shifted thoroughly. After half a century of unsurpassed mass housing construction and urban growth...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Explaining Watson

Our paper is actually two contributions in one. First, we argue that IBM’s Jeopardy! playing machine needs a formal semantics. We present several arguments as we discuss the system. We also situate the work in the broader context of contemporary AI. Our second point is that the work in this area might well be done as a broad collaborative project. Hence our “Blue Sky” contribution is a proposal...

Making Watson fast

E. A. Epstein M. I. Schor B. S. Iyer A. Lally E. W. Brown J. Cwiklik IBM Watsoni is a system created to demonstrate DeepQA technology by competing against human champions in a question-answering game designed for people. The DeepQA architecture was designed to be massively parallel, with an expectation that low latency response times could be achieved by doing parallel computation on many compu...

Parallel Galton Watson Process

In this paper, we study a parallel version of GaltonWatson processes for the random generation of tree-shaped structures. Random trees are useful in many situations (testing, binary search, simulation of physics phenomena,...) as attests more than 49000 citations on Google scholar. Using standard analytic combinatorics, we first give a theoretical, averagecase study of the random process in ord...