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Kasparov To Square Off With Deep Junior

News After five years of licking his Deep Blue wounds, Garry Kasparov will face a widely admired -- and feared -- computer chess master. The match, to be held on 1 October in Jerusalem, will pit Kasparov against Deep Junior, the work of Tel Aviv...

[August 8, 2002, 15:59]

Kasparov Takes On The World Online

News The game, Kasparov vs the World, began on June 21 and is now in its 19th move. It is expected to become the largest interactive game in history, receiving more than six million page views since its launch.

[August 4, 1999, 7:39]

Return Of The Chess-playing Supercomputer

News Nearly ten years after the first epic clash between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, man is again going head-to-head with a computer in a high-profile chess competition. Adams became a grand master at 17 and was ranked third in the world in 2002 by...

[May 24, 2005, 18:25]

Chess Grandmaster To Battle Supercomputer

News In a contest that has echoes of Gary Kasparov's epic encounter with IBM's Deep Blue, Adams and the Hydra computer will play up to six games over the next week, for a prize fund of $150,000 (£80,000). Adams vs Hydra comes almost a decade after Garry...

[June 21, 2005, 11:05]

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Doesn't Deep Blue beating Kasparov prove that it's smarter? Like many, I'm keeping half an eye on the Kasparov/Deep Blue chess tournament (currently running at two games each). Still time for a gossip with a pal, though, who informs me that the...

[May 10, 1997, 9:00]

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

News Doesn't Deep Blue beating Kasparov prove that it's smarter? Like many, I'm keeping half an eye on the Kasparov/Deep Blue chess tournament (currently running at two games each). Still time for a gossip with a pal, though, who informs me that the...

[May 10, 1997, 8:00]

Guy Kewney's IBM Diary

News Kasparov should have won, but he drew. We missed the disastrous day where Kasparov threw his teddy out of his pram and stormed off the set of the Equitable building in New York, because we spent that day in airports, getting to St Louis, Missouri.

[May 17, 1997, 8:00]

Deep Blue Veteran Plots Lotus Game-plan

News As the man who decided in 1996 that IBM should pit its Deep Blue supercomputer against the then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, Ambouj Goyal is used to thinking strategically. So going up against Garry Kasparov was your idea?

[August 3, 2004, 12:35]

News Burst: IBM's POWER3 Chip Launched

News POWER3 has been designed by the team that gave life to Deep Blue, the supercomputer that took on chess grand master Garry Kasparov last year and won. The processor was introduced on IBM's new, high-performance RS/6000 43P Model 260 graphical...

[October 6, 1998, 9:57]

Is The World Ready For The Self-aware Robot?

News Their efforts to re-create human intelligence in hardware and software have led to some very smart machines - just think of IBM's Deep Blue beating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, whose genius for the game couldn't match the computer's high...

[April 12, 2005, 19:25]

News Burst: IBM Supercomputer Seeks Objects In Space

News The system can process 480 billion calculations per second and is 40 times faster than the IBM "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated chess champ Garry Kasparov in 1997. The Air Force Space Surveillance Team based in Maui, Hawaii, announced...

[November 22, 2000, 11:52]

Photos: The Birth Of A Supercomputer

News The most prominent is Blue Gene, a much more powerful version of Deep Blue, the computer that beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Rochester is the home of the Blue Gene supercomputer, and is also the birthplace of the AS400.

[January 23, 2006, 9:55]

Grandmaster Fails To Slay The Hydra

News Whereas ten years ago Gary Kasparov only narrowly lost to IBM's Deeper Blue, advances in technology and programming have made the aptly named Hydra a beast to be reckoned with. UK chess grandmaster Michael Adams has been soundly beaten in his...

[July 1, 2005, 13:10]

Big Blue Extends Deep Into Business Arena

News IBM's next-generation RS/6000 SP supercomputer system contains the POWER3 microprocessor, the direct successor to the POWER2 Super Chip inside "Deep Blue," known for its chess victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

[February 2, 1999, 16:14]

IBM Supercomputer To Fight Florida Storms

News The computer is the offspring of "Deep Blue" -- the machine which beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Florida State University has introduced the world's biggest university owned supercomputer Monday.

[August 15, 2000, 15:10]

CeBIT 98: Gerstner Keynote P1 - Deep Computing

News After all, Deep Blue's predecessor was also quite fast, but it lost to Kasparov two years ago. I've been looking forward to this evening for a long time, because I've known for many years how important CeBIT is to the global information technology...

[March 19, 1998, 16:06]

Supercomputing On Tour

News IBM, whose Deep Blue technology succeeded in battling world chess champion Gary Kasparov to a draw several years ago, used that specialised technology as the basis of the five-year, $400m (£224m) R&D effort that begat Blue Gene and finally broke...

[September 26, 2005, 10:45]

AI Gets Down To Business

News Then the Deep Blue team beat Gary Kasparov, and now it's not considered an AI problem," Cliff points out. An electronic butler that answers your questions using all the resources of the Internet. An artificial infant you raise from birth, teaching...

[January 23, 2001, 14:20]

Linux To Enter Supercomputing Top Five

News Linux Networx said that the cluster will be seven times more powerful than Deep Blue, the machine used to beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in California, is to build the world's...

[July 17, 2002, 13:10]

IBM's Deep Blue To End ISPs' E-mail Traffic Jam

News IBM has announced that its Scalable E-Mail Server solution which combines IBM's RS/6000 with SoftSwitch, a suite of electronic messaging software developed by Lotus, will be made available to ISPs. The technology which drives IBM's scalable server...

[June 6, 1997, 13:44]