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 ...

May 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1858, Minnesota joined the United States as the 32nd state. In 1862, the Confederate navy destroyed its iron-clad vessel Merrimac to prevent it from falling ...

SAN JOSE — IBM’s research achievements are legendary: the hard drive; DRAM; the relational database; DES data encryption; Deep Blue, the chess-playing supercomputer; Blue Gene, its DNA-simulating ...

Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous ...

Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, levelled the scores at one a piece in its six-game rematch with world chess champion Garry Kasparov. The result had IBM exultant. Deep Blue team ...

Big Blue talks up its exotic Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the first module of which is a relatively small, dishwasher-size machine that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. Stephen ...

1997. Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player of all time, faces Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. Two brains, face to face; one man against an empire; a battle of humans against machines that forever ...