Garry Kasparov: Watson Is A Kid’s ToyBy Daniel LongFebruary 24, 2011 at 12:46 PM World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov knows a thing or two about defending his pride against game playing computers. He also has a thing or two to say about Watson, that Jeopardy beating robot that nobody likes to invite to parties. His […]
Computer rules again
Supercomputer Beats Humans In US Gameshow2:31pm UK, Thursday February 17, 2011Lulu Sinclair, Sky News OnlineAn IBM super computer has beaten two human rivals on the US game show Jeopardy. The machine – cleverer even than the Deep Blue machine that beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997 – is to be used for medical […]
Another blast from the past
A friendly game against Deep Blue at the IBM Research Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY in 2003. And no, it is not April fools 🙂 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
New mission for Deep Blue
Deep Blue to battle cancerBy: Nestor E. Arellano, IT World Canada(04/07/2006) An IBM supercomputer directly related to the famous Deep Blue that battled chess grand master Gary Kasparov in 1997 has recently been recruited to aid Canadian researchers in the fight against cancer. One of the biggest challenges in our research is being able to […]
Machine or Human – Different Intelligence?
Computer bested humanity, technicallyClick-2-ListenBy BRUCE KAUFFMANNWednesday, May 09, 2007 …But at what point does massive computational ability simply overwhelm all of those human characteristics? IBM wondered, so it returned to the drawing board and re-designed Deep Blue, giving it the ability to process 200 million chess positions per second. And it challenged Kasparov to a […]
A match that will never be forgotten
Deep Blue victory still a milestone 10 years later By JULIE MORAN ALTERIOTHE JOURNAL NEWS(Original publication: May 6, 2007) $137.50. That’s how much it costs today to buy the home version of the Deep Fritz software that beat world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a match last year. What a difference a decade makes. This […]
Deep Blue exhibited
Museum displays history of tech First computers, processors exhibitedBY ALEX L. GOLDFAYNPublished April 30, 2007In the technology industry, what is missing is some good, old-fashioned reminiscing. It is a field that flies forward with such blazing speed that the past seems irrelevant, so much so that the term “technology history” has become something of an […]