Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: Glen Clark Subject: Dead Silence on Deep Blue? Organization: Clark Communications Date: 27 May 1997 15:02:57 GMT Message-ID: <5met31$p6p@server1.ctc.com> OK guys... I know that there is a lot of anti-IBM sentiment in these groups. But I was surprised that there wasn't one peep here about the Kasparov match either during or after. Knowlegable types may consider it a non-event, as it only did what we all knew would be done eventually. Even if you aren't an IBM fan or are one of those who considers this a non-event, you have to know that it has created among the lay public a lot of visibility (and credibility since it won) for supercomuting. Recalling that Georgia Tech decided that "supercomuting" was an anacronism when they unplugged the Cybers and that they didn't forsee even needing anything bigger than a SPARC ever again (this was about 1989 or so), I'm thinkful for any public exposure that makes it harder for some non-technical administrator to claim that supercomputing is a thing of the past. While I doubt the Carnegie-Mellon cum Big Blue architects of the programming are posting the source code on web sites, I would be fascinated to know what little there they have divulged. Was it simply a brute force, exhaustive search or were there AI elements in its operation. I would also be interested if what effect (if anything) others think this may have on the future. -- Glen Clark glen@clarkcom.com State College, PA -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@ctc.com) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel