IBM Marks 15 Years Since Deep Blue Defeated Garry Kasparov

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May 11, 2012 marks the 15-year anniversary since IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In the video below IBM Research scientist Dr. Murray Campbell, one of the original developers, talks about the challenges and breakthroughs of building Deep Blue.

Designed as a "brute force" high-power parallel processing super-computer, Deep Blue could analyze 200 million chess positions per second. It defeated Kasparov 3.5-2.5 after losing 4-2 the previous year. After the game Deep Blue was used to develop drug treatments, analyze risk and conduct data mining. It also paved the way for the next generation of its replacements - Blue Gene and Watson.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 17, 2012 1:37 AM
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