Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:58:12 04/17/00
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On April 17, 2000 at 13:37:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 17, 2000 at 05:37:08, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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. > >If the chip is patented, then the information is publicly available. And when >the patent expires (7? 9? years) anyone could make one. However, in that time >frame, I suspect it may be a moot point. I doubt it's patented. Don't you have to have some unique, new methods to get a patent? DB is just an evolutionary step from DT. -Tom
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