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IBM Celebrates The 15Th Anniversary Of Deep Blue Beating Garry Kasparov
engadget.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoIt's been 15 years since IBM's Deep Blue recorded its famous May 11th 1997 victory over world champion chess player Garry Kasparov -- a landmark in artificial intelligence. Designed by Big Blue as a way of understanding high-power parallel processing, the "brute force" system could examine 200 million chess positions every second, beating the grandmaster 3.5-2.5 after losing 4-2 the previous year. It went on to help develop drug treatments, analyze risk and aid data miners before being replaced with Blue Ge
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How Mobile Is Rapidly Evolving The World
forbes.com 1 week, 4 days agoThe first time I can remember realizing how critical mobile phones were to people was back in 2006, while I was working in India. It was a blistering summer, and I'd heard the news that rural farmers were waiting in mile long lines to bring their produce to market; most had to spend the night ...
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