Word: ibm
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Ironically, the world's last communist power largely relies on the FORTUNE 500 to advance its economic agenda. Whenever Congress considers China's MFN status, such companies as Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Intel, General Motors and IBM lobby on China's side. For Boeing, the stakes could not be higher: Beijing is expected to spend $124 billion on new planes over the next 20 years, making it the world's fastest-growing airline market. "When the U.S.-China relationship goes in the tank, so do our order books," says Boeing spokesman Thomas Tripp...
...move 16, and Deep Blue is thinking. Or rather, Deep Blue's 512 processors are reviewing 200 million chess positions per second in order to create the illusion that Deep Blue is thinking. And it isn't really Deep Blue either. It's what the guys at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, call Deeper Blue: the second generation of the original Deep Blue, the infamous chess program that one year ago threw a stunning uppercut to human self-esteem by winning the first game of its six-game match against world champion Garry...
Deep Blue didn't flinch. His gambit, Kasparov admits, was "a complete disaster, because the computer simply doesn't care. If the threats are not real, it sees that. So the machine simply took all the pawns and defended its king." And for an industry that IBM had built in the first place, scored the first win over a world champion. "Then I realized," he says, "that this will be tough...
...NetPC model crafted in cooperation with Microsoft, and the firm's engineers have been busy developing new applications to take advantage of its powerful chips. But other companies see a chance to develop a mass-market computer that doesn't necessarily need Microsoft software or an Intel chip. IBM, Sony, Oracle and RCA are all backing network computers designed for the Internet...
...consideration of the available 'options,' and application of logical decisions...Like no Defense Secretary before him, he has seized control of the Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions...His love of computers, and his own computerlike mind, have led to the bitter quip that IBM really stands for 'I, Bob McNamara...