In February of 2011, IBM built and tested a program called Watson to play against humans in the popular TV game show, Jeopardy. Do a Google search with the terms 'ibm', 'watson', 'jeopardy' and answer the following:
While Jeopardy is a fun game, and while explicit goal is to build a program to beat a human champion at the game, the real goal for building Watson is different and multi fold. Provide some of the research goals driving IBM in the creation of Watson.