When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished.

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about ...

Deep Blue was based on a 30-node RS/6000 parallel computer running AIX (IBM's Unix). With each node augmented by 480 chips specialized for the game, Deep Blue could evaluate up to 20 chess moves ...

The IBM Deep Blue chess computer team poses in the playing room on May 8, 1997 in New York. From L are: Chung-Jen Tan (team manager), Gerry Brody, Joel Benjamin, Murray Campbell, ...

Yet, because of Deep Blue’s Bayesian structure, its programmers could audit the computer’s decision-making afterward and determine, in retrospect, why it had chosen to act a certain way.

Nineteen years ago today, IBM’s Deep Blue computer made history by defeating reigning world chess champ Garry Kasparov. At that time, Kasparov had been world champion since 1985, a title he held ...

On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM's Deep ...

In 1997, Deep Blue, a computer designed by IBM, took on the undefeated world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Kasparov lost. Some argued that computers had progressed to be "smarter" than humans.

When Deep Blue beat the world chess champion 20 years ago, we learned a huge lesson. Just not the one we thought. ... One was IBM computer scientist Murray Campbell, ...

Deep Blue’s famous victory was nearly 20 years ago — how did you approach the challenge of solving chess and beating ... How different is Go from chess in terms of the computer science required?

And he goes up against IBM's Deep Blue computer. So, in 1996, they played this first match in Philadelphia. And I remember CJ Tan, Dr. Tan, he was the head of the IBM Deep Blue program.