Deep Blue

As far back as 1997, an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue played and beat the world champion Garry Kasparov at chess though Kasparov claimed the match was unfair, and subsequently drew with a different version of the program.

Television 2009

The New York Times has a pair of good Watson reads, a super-techy tear-down of what helped Watson win and an homage to his philosophical predecessor, Deep Blue, the computer that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov at his own game and then retired to the Smithsonian.

Lunch break reading: Watson wins big on 'Jeopardy!' Hayley Tsukayama 2011

I suppose that his father was Deep Blue, the chess champion, but his spiritual grandfather, the Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, had a few problems.

No Patient Will Ever Say, 'Quick, Watson, the Needle!' 2011

For Mr. Christian, the right response to Deep Blue's victory is neither defeatism nor redefining thought to make ourselves feel better.

More Than Machine Julian Baggini 2011

And before the next 10 years had passed, technology had changed so much that Kasparov not only couldn't beat specialized computers like Deep Blue; he couldn't beat good chess programs running on commercially available servers.

Andrew McAfee On Putting The Science In Management Science 2010

The chess machine Hydra, which is a chess-specific supercomputer like Deep Blue, was no match for a strong human player using a relatively weak laptop.

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent.

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010

The AI crowd, too, was pleased with the result and the attention, but dismayed by the fact that Deep Blue was hardly what their predecessors had imagined decades earlier when they dreamed of creating a machine to defeat the world chess champion.

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010

The chess machine Hydra, which is a chess-specific supercomputer like Deep Blue, was no match for a strong human player using a relatively weak laptop.

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010

The AI crowd, too, was pleased with the result and the attention, but dismayed by the fact that Deep Blue was hardly what their predecessors had imagined decades earlier when they dreamed of creating a machine to defeat the world chess champion.

Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010