Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundred experts in government, education and industry gather at Harvard for the opening of the Computation Laboratory, a "modernistic, two-story structure" featuring the 51-foot IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator...
...think IBM was the big winner of this match. It scored many points in advertising and in the stock market. I also think the company owes something to chess. I think it would be great if IBM contributed to chess development; specifically, it could create a scholarship to help talented kids study chess...
...this rematch, I'm ready, whatever the outcome, to go to IBM's labs and have a nice talk with the Deep Blue team. But until then, I'm going to treat them as a very hostile opponent, in order to be ready for the toughest challenge of my life...
...most complex man-made creation in history," says Michael Slater, principal analyst for MicroDesign Resources, based in Sebastopol, Calif. "Everything is built on everything that went before. It's a continuous stream of new ideas...but none of these ideas are broad. The broad ideas are almost all IBM's." Hey, maybe Big Blue ought to be calling its lawyer...
...week since computers became the best chess-playing species on earth, we homo sapiens have proved that we remain world champs in at least one cognitive domain: rationalizing defeat. While Garry Kasparov was spending his post-match press conference accusing IBM of cheating, commentators around the world were finding other ways to minimize Deep Blue's triumph. CHESS, SHMESS! COMPUTERS STILL CAN'T HANDLE THE TOUGH STUFF, said the headline on a Boston Globe article that noted how much trouble machines have understanding a sentence or telling a dog from a cat. Britain's Daily Telegraph observed that computers "cannot...