Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:36:56 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 11:25:41, Amir Ban wrote: >It does indeed seems true that the way the Deep Blue project carried on was a >result of narrow commercial reasons. > >This may be an explanation, but not a vindication. A pioneering project that was >supposed to done in the name of science, and in a sense our entire 40-year old >field of computer chess, was made hostage to the short-lived, almost trivial, >interests of IBM Corporation. If we believe this to be true, then we should be >VERY angry. The impression I got at Hsu's talk at Microsoft was that there was a cost/benefit comparison between this project and a 30-second Superbowl commercial, and that this project came out ahead. bruce
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