The development of Deep Blue began in 1985 with the ChipTest project at Carnegie Mellon University. The system was predominantly based on brute force computing power to play chess. It comprised a ...

In 1997, in New York, humans suffered an enormous blow to their chess ego when Deep Blue, a chess computer, outplayed Garry Kaspa-rov, a reigning world champion. The age of artificial intelligence ...

Karatekin also refers back to MIT many times, including referencing Rybka or “little fish” system developed by an MIT alumnus ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...