Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 02:37:08 04/17/00
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On April 17, 2000 at 04:20:57, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On April 17, 2000 at 03:06:21, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>I have got impression, that Deep Blue has much more complex and better >>evaluation function than PC programs (it had >8000 different properties). Is >>this knowledge now lost? Can Hsu publish his code? Can it be used in PCs? Or may >>be DB code is suitable only for it's paraller hardware? Bob, Can You explain. >> >>thanks Jouni > >FWIW, I think they should at least do _something_ with the code/machinery of DB. > It truly would be a great loss if none of it was ever made available for >examination. I doubt DB's algorithms are any better than those of top PC programs. This has been discussed before, thought, and I don't think a good conclusion can be reached without knowing more about DB. I think the real novelty of DB is the chip design. Hsu got the rights to the design from IBM. He had some plans to make commercial DB chips for PCs, but I think those plans have fallen through. He probably won't make the design public, though, because it might be comercially viable in the future. -Tom
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