Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:22:29 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 02:48:49, george petty wrote:
>On January 14, 2000 at 02:20:09, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2000 at 00:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 13, 2000 at 23:07:07, James Robertson wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 13, 2000 at 22:49:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>IBM got something from Hsu (publicity) and gave him money to work on DB;
>>>>
>>>>Not publicity. Computer knowledge. Nobody (aside from the computer chess
>>>>community) knows who Hsu is. He could have been replaced at any time and DB
>>>>would still have continued.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Not a prayer. He designed _all_ the hardware. He developed the parallel
>>>search. Etc. Hsu _was_ deep blue, just as he was Deep Thought...
>>
>>I find it impossible to believe that he is the only human who is capable of
>>doing this.
>
> I agree with you again. The old saying about how long you will be missed,
> is like pulling your hand out of bucket of water. There are many who are
> capable of doing it.
>
> George
I disagree. The point isn't whether he was the only one CAPABLE of making DB,
but whether he was indeed THE man behind DB. As far as I understand, that is
indeed the case, hence DB = Hsu and not IBM. IBM provided him the means, but Hsu
is the one who made it.
Albert Silver
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