David Hasselhoff’s sidekick, K.I.T.T, a talking car from the television series . >Knight Rider"(IBM) organizes this competition as a way to get people interested in the type of research that they need, especially in the area of machine learning,? said Olac Fuentes, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science at The University of Texas at El Paso. "Machine learning consists of enabling computers to improve in the performance of a task by means of experience"This spring, the Watson Techn....