Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week in New York, Kasparov played another computer, known as Deep Thought and touted as the best computer chess player ever made...
...Deep Thought was no match for the Soviet wonderkind. "Computers lack common sense and logic." he says, adding, "I still have energy to defend the human race...
...infallible as he has been called, Kasparov may have made a mistake in his estimate. "Kasparov is just a stronger player," says Feng Hsiung, who helped develop the machine. But he says that Deep Thought can already play chess better than the computer analysts who programmed it. The computer can review 700,000 moves per second...
Good enough, I thought. And then I read the end of the article. I've never been able to forget it. And in it lies the plainest argument for preserving the community of Harvard, not Club Harvard...
...article on Saturday's sports page, the Crimson mistakenly reported that chess champion Gary Kasparov would play the computer Deep Thought that day. Kasparov played Deep Thought last week in New York. The Crimson also mistakely reported the name and title of one of Kaasparov's opponents. She is Anna Akhsharumova and does not teach at Harvard...