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Ken Jennings BiographyAfter a 74 game-winning streak on the show, Jennings has become known as the master Jeopardy! player for his amazing memory, unparalleled buzzer technique, and the fact that he has won a record $2.52 million in winnings on the show.
A Seattle native who grew up in South Korea, Jennings watched Jeopardy! regularly on the US Armed Forces TV network, convinced that he could one day be a contestant. Now, with a winning streak that has made him a celebrity, this game show sensation has received much media coverage, having appeared on The Late Show to present Letterman's "Top 10 List" and, during his run, increased Jeopardy! ratings by 62 percent.
Formerly a member of Brigham Young University's College Bowl team in the 1990s, Jennings started writing and editing literature questions for the National Academic Quiz Tournament. Also an avid comic book and movie buff, Jennings eventually gave up his day job as a software engineer at CHG, a healthcare placement firm.
Since his Jeopardy! streak ended, Ken has become a bestselling author. His books include Brainiac, about the phenomenon of trivia in American culture, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, the biggest American trivia book ever assembled, Maphead, about his lifelong love of geography, and Because I Said So!, debunking parenting cliches. For children, he writes a series of Junior Genius Guides full of fun projects and amazing facts.
Jennings hosted Stump the Master and Clued In for GSN Live and has appeared in ads for FedEx, Microsoft, Allstate, Cingular, IBM and H&R Block. He speaks about the importance of learning at college campuses and corporate events, and writes about all things trivial for a wide range of print and online publications. He has returned to quiz shows several times since his Jeopardy! streak, racking up three second-place finishes in Jeopardy! tournaments (once bested by the IBM supercomputer Watson). He won GSN's Grand Slam tournament, which featured 16 ex-quiz show champs, and a half-million dollar prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
In early 2020, Jennings won the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Championship against other legendary Jeopardy! champions James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. His lifetime Jeopardy!-related winnings now total $4,522,700.
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In 2011, when IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat top human players at the quiz show Jeopardy!, computer programmer and quiz show champ Ken Jennings became the first person ever to lose his job to one of these new "thinking" machines. But he won't be the last. Jennings uses his experiences battling IBM's "Watson" as a way to explore the changes in tomorrow's business climate that Watson will introduce: computers that can diagnose disease, provide customer support, perform business analytics... and dominate TV quiz shows, of course.
Ken Jennings, a former computer programmer, best-selling author, and 74-game Jeopardy! champ, was hauled out of quiz show retirement in 2011 to represent the human race against Watson, a super-intelligent supercomputer designed by IBM for one purpose alone: to beat the world's best players at Jeopardy! Jennings' behind-the-scenes look at that epic match poses important questions for anyone interested in or, thanks to Hollywood, terrified by the idea of machines that can reason and learn. Why is Watson such a technological milestone? Does it really "think" in the same way that a human does? What does its remarkable ability tell us about the future of artificial intelligence, and of human intelligence?
It was about a month into my 2004 run on “Jeopardy!” that Alex Trebek made me laugh out loud. “And now we come to our returning champion, Ken Jennings,” ...
Ken Jennings: First of all, I'm just gobsmacked by James. It's absolutely insane what he's doing. Like, I thought I had seen everything on Jeopardy!. And this is ...
"This is something I would have thought was just impossible..." "Jeopardy!" icon Ken Jennings said of champ James Holzhauer.
Alex Trebek's voice is anything but soothing for 74-time Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. "I can't watch it the way I used to. I hear the music or I hear Alex's voice and I get very tense like I'm right back there on the set," he says. "I feel the adrenaline spike. So I've got post traumatic game show disorder."
The entire concept of the game show genre is to give average people the opportunity to win obscene sums of money or make fools of themselves in the process. However, Jeopardy struck gold in 2004 with the insane winning streak of trivia champion Ken Jennings. He made television history with his unprecedented number of Jeopardy wins, and now he’s headed back to TV in an attempt to do the same on...
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After a 74 game-winning streak on the show, Jennings has become known as the master Jeopardy! player for his amazing memory, unparalleled buzzer technique, and the fact that he has won a record $2.52 million in winnings on the show.
A Seattle native who grew up in South Korea, Jennings watched Jeopardy! regularly on the US Armed Forces TV network, convinced that he could one day be a contestant. Now, with a winning streak that has made him a celebrity, this game show sensation has received much media coverage, having appeared on The Late Show to present Letterman's "Top 10 List" and, during his run, increased Jeopardy! ratings by 62 percent.
Formerly a member of Brigham Young University's College Bowl team in the 1990s, Jennings started writing and editing literature questions for the National Academic Quiz Tournament. Also an avid comic book and movie buff, Jennings eventually gave up his day job as a software engineer at CHG, a healthcare placement firm.
Since his Jeopardy! streak ended, Ken has become a bestselling author. His books include Brainiac, about the phenomenon of trivia in American culture, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, the biggest American trivia book ever assembled, Maphead, about his lifelong love of geography, and Because I Said So!, debunking parenting cliches. For children, he writes a series of Junior Genius Guides full of fun projects and amazing facts.
Jennings hosted Stump the Master and Clued In for GSN Live and has appeared in ads for FedEx, Microsoft, Allstate, Cingular, IBM and H&R Block. He speaks about the importance of learning at college campuses and corporate events, and writes about all things trivial for a wide range of print and online publications. He has returned to quiz shows several times since his Jeopardy! streak, racking up three second-place finishes in Jeopardy! tournaments (once bested by the IBM supercomputer Watson). He won GSN's Grand Slam tournament, which featured 16 ex-quiz show champs, and a half-million dollar prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
In early 2020, Jennings won the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Championship against other legendary Jeopardy! champions James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. His lifetime Jeopardy!-related winnings now total $4,522,700.
Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Ken Jennings and other top speakers and celebrities.
In 2011, when IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat top human players at the quiz show Jeopardy!, computer programmer and quiz show champ Ken Jennings became the first person ever to lose his job to one of these new "thinking" machines. But he won't be the last. Jennings uses his experiences battling IBM's "Watson" as a way to explore the changes in tomorrow's business climate that Watson will introduce: computers that can diagnose disease, provide customer support, perform business analytics... and dominate TV quiz shows, of course.
Ken Jennings, a former computer programmer, best-selling author, and 74-game Jeopardy! champ, was hauled out of quiz show retirement in 2011 to represent the human race against Watson, a super-intelligent supercomputer designed by IBM for one purpose alone: to beat the world's best players at Jeopardy! Jennings' behind-the-scenes look at that epic match poses important questions for anyone interested in or, thanks to Hollywood, terrified by the idea of machines that can reason and learn. Why is Watson such a technological milestone? Does it really "think" in the same way that a human does? What does its remarkable ability tell us about the future of artificial intelligence, and of human intelligence?
Ken Jennings is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Ken Jennings for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Ken Jennings generally travels from Seattle, WA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mayim Bialik, Kathy Ireland, B. Gentry Lee, David Pogue and Daymond John. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ken Jennings for an upcoming event.
In 2011, when IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat top human players at the quiz show Jeopardy!, computer programmer and quiz show champ Ken Jennings became the first person ever to lose his job to one of these new "thinking" machines. But he won't be the last. Jennings uses his experiences battling IBM's "Watson" as a way to explore the changes in tomorrow's business climate that Watson will introduce: computers that can diagnose disease, provide customer support, perform business analytics... and dominate TV quiz shows, of course.
Ken Jennings, a former computer programmer, best-selling author, and 74-game Jeopardy! champ, was hauled out of quiz show retirement in 2011 to represent the human race against Watson, a super-intelligent supercomputer designed by IBM for one purpose alone: to beat the world's best players at Jeopardy! Jennings' behind-the-scenes look at that epic match poses important questions for anyone interested in or, thanks to Hollywood, terrified by the idea of machines that can reason and learn. Why is Watson such a technological milestone? Does it really "think" in the same way that a human does? What does its remarkable ability tell us about the future of artificial intelligence, and of human intelligence?
It was about a month into my 2004 run on “Jeopardy!” that Alex Trebek made me laugh out loud. “And now we come to our returning champion, Ken Jennings,” ...
Ken Jennings: First of all, I'm just gobsmacked by James. It's absolutely insane what he's doing. Like, I thought I had seen everything on Jeopardy!. And this is ...
"This is something I would have thought was just impossible..." "Jeopardy!" icon Ken Jennings said of champ James Holzhauer.
Alex Trebek's voice is anything but soothing for 74-time Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. "I can't watch it the way I used to. I hear the music or I hear Alex's voice and I get very tense like I'm right back there on the set," he says. "I feel the adrenaline spike. So I've got post traumatic game show disorder."
The entire concept of the game show genre is to give average people the opportunity to win obscene sums of money or make fools of themselves in the process. However, Jeopardy struck gold in 2004 with the insane winning streak of trivia champion Ken Jennings. He made television history with his unprecedented number of Jeopardy wins, and now he’s headed back to TV in an attempt to do the same on...
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