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While Karpov and Kasparov were face to face, the two computers were 750 miles apart--the Cray in Mendota Heights, Minn., the Sun on the Pittsburgh campus of Carnegie-Mellon University. The computers' moves were sent over telephone lines to Denver and relayed to a regulation chessboard. But distance did not hurt the game. Says Chess Master David Levy: "For the first time a program played like a strong human player...
After choosing a line of attack, Oracle switches control to a separate unit called Searcher. Designed by Carl Ebeling, a Carnegie-Mellon graduate student, and manufactured under a Defense Department grant, Searcher is a bread-box- size device that contains 64 special-purpose microprocessors. Each is assigned & to one square of the chessboard. When a piece lands on a particular square, the microchip dedicated to that square determines the likely outcomes. Operating at peak speeds, the 64 chips can evaluate more than 175,000 positions per sec., or 30 million in the 3 min. allowed for each move of tournament...
...college to make personal computers mandatory; in 1982 Stevens Institute required its science students to buy their own PCs, and in 1983 Clarkson and Dallas Baptist extended the idea to include all incoming freshmen. Now computers are required or strongly recommended at more than a dozen schools, including Carnegie-Mellon, Colby, Dartmouth, Drew, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, LeTourneau and Sweet Briar. But none of these schools has integrated the machines into its curriculum as thoroughly as Drexel has. And none has been as dramatically transformed by computers as the Philadelphia school...
...Carnegie-Mellon is very involved in the revitalization and growth of the city of Pittsburgh," said Don Hale, assistant vice-president for university relations. "We believe that having a professional sports team in Pittsburgh is important to the continued vitality of the city's economy...
...Carnegie-Mellon was given its share of investment money by "an anonymous donor who has worked with the university in the past," said Hale...