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 ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first ... 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 ...

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 ...

Twelve years after an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov, IBM's new Question Answering (QA) system code-named "Watson" promises to be the next round in ...

IBM gave reporters in San Francisco a demonstration of Project Debater. Think Deep Blue, but instead of playing chess, this system debates. Computer scientists have labored for six years to enable ...

From the System/360 of the mid-1960s through to the Kubrickian monolith of Deep Blue, IBM's aesthetic helped define the supercomputer. All of these milestones could be kicked into touch by the next ...

Most folk are aware of IBM’s Watson, the deep-thinking supercomputer that won jeopardy and launched an artificial intelligence bonanza. Watson is not the fastest supercomputer in the world ...