At IBM, we have this superhuman speech recognition [initiative in which] the goal is to get performance comparable to humans in the next five years.

We search on text today, but how about searching on speech and visual content?

In some ways, your Oscar speech is as important as the movie performance that got you the award. It's your chance to live forever in showbiz history. Or bore them to tears and come off as selfish and pampered.

Machines are not judgmental. Some people feel like they are being judged when they phone call centers. That doesn't happen with a machine.

There is a national problem with suppressing free speech at high schools and colleges in the name of political correctness, and it disproportionately affects conservative and Christian students and student organizations.

I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.