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...YORK CITY: The latest scientific attempt to build a better brain goes on display Saturday when world chess champion Garry Kasparov gives a rematch to IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer. The new, improved Deep Blue can think twice as fast as the predecessor that lost to Kasparov 4-2 last year. Tutored by international grand chess champion Joel Benjamin, the machine now knows more about chess as well. But Kasparov remains confident. His battle plan? Detect weak points and keep switching strategies, betting that Deep Blue will be slow to adapt...
...IBM, working with United Way and AmeriCorps*VISTA, will underwrite computer equipment over the next four years for some 2,000 community, day-care and senior-citizen centers. IBM volunteers will provide training. IBM's estimated cost: $10 million...
...event was headlined by a keynote address from Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and was moderated by Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci. The panel of judges was a Who's Who at Harvard, including Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye Jr., IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter and Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins...
...VanAlstyne, a manager for IBM-Lotus, said that IBM tries to recruit a diverse staff and that he likes to see clues in a resume that indicate an applicant is homosexual...
When VanAlstyne told his coordinator that he was gay, the coordinator immediately enlisted VanAlstyne's help for a campaign inside IBM to obtain health care benefits for homosexual employees' partners...