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

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

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IBM is over a century old, a massive multinational even before the dawn of the computer age. Through research and innovation ... From the System/360 of the mid-1960s through to the Kubrickian monolith ...