Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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News of Deep Blue's victory over reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov has been splattered across newspapers everywhere, including our very own Crimson. But what does it all mean? Does it deserve the status of an historic event? Has IBM built artificial intelligence, or does a devoted chess-playing super-computer deserve the same status as an electronic pencil sharpener...
...benign as possible is what gives his current job meaning. Even if the Web's most epic effects can't be anticipated or controlled, maybe they can be given some minimal degree of order. As director of the Web consortium, he brings together its members--Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Apple, IBM and 155 others--and tries to broker agreement on technical standards even as the software underlying the Web rapidly evolves. His nightmare is a Web that "becomes more than one Web, so that you need 16 different browsers, depending on what you're looking at." He especially loathes those BEST...
...voice trails off "...to seek the truth in love..." He is silent for a moment. His brain has failed him. Then inspiration strikes. "Maybe I can pick it up from the Web." In a single motion, he swivels his chair 180[degrees] and makes fluid contact with his IBM Thinkpad...
...first-rate at solving equations, entertaining children, burying friends and enemies under E-mail and doing many other useful chores. They have also been brushing up on their chess. By the end of the second game between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov last week, it was clear that IBM's extraordinary computer was playing better chess than any machine ever had before. After Saturday's game ended in a draw, the match was still tied at one win and three draws apiece, but technology watchers were pretty well agreed: if the machine doesn't triumph this time, it is likely...
...IBM No one's rooting for the ghost in the chess machine, but it's been a p.r. bonanza for its creator...