
"How cool is it to imagine a machine that can combine deductive and inductive processes to develop, apply, refine and explain a fundamental economic theory?”
David Ferrucci is the principal researcher who led a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers to the develop IBM's Watson that won Jeopardy, a television quiz show. Ferrucci graduated from Manhattan College, with a B.S. degree in biology and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1994 with a Ph.D. degree in computer science specializing in knowledge representation and reasoning.