World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

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This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry ...

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IBM and NNSA researchers cited such abilities in a 20 petaflops per second supercomputer as a 40-times jump in some weather-monitoring capabilities (for example, the path of a tornado would become ...

At that time, it held the rank of the world's 259th most powerful supercomputer. The Deep Blue-Kasparov matches were landmark events in the history of artificial intelligence. They showed the ...

The debate hearkened back to February 10, 1996, when IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer made worldwide headlines by defeating Garry Kasparov, the Russian grandmaster, in a single game of chess.

Screenwriter Paul Schrader, known for his critically acclaimed works like "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "First Reformed," surprised fans when he shared his apparent approval of artificial ...