Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 10:08:30 05/09/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 06:35:53, Ingo Althofer wrote: >Shortly after the win of Deep Blue over Kasparov in May 1997 members >of the DB team and IBM promised two things: > >(i) Until the end of 1997 there will be either a version of Deep Blue > jr. playing on the internet, or the DB chip will be made > commercially available on a plug-in card for PCs. According to Hsu, there is a DB, Jr. web site, available for IBM employees only at the present time, which is a test case for the future placement of DB, Jr. on the Internet. If you know an IBM saleman, he may be able to get you access. He did not have any specific time as to when DB, Jr. would be available to the general public. Hsu would like to get the rights to the chip, and if he does, he is considering producing a plug-in card. He said IBM has no intention of doing so. >(ii) Technical papers will be published in appropriate Journals, > explaining in detail the way, Deep Blue is playing chess. Only a book on the project is planned. Hsu is currently writing this. It is not computer chess specific, however, and will not go into great detail about the way DB plays chess. Hsu said there would be too little interest. He did not rule out the possiblity of articles, but said that he did not have the time at present. >I still have the hope that this will really happen. ( Especially, when >there is time to tour through the universities, there should also be >time to write the technical papers. ) IBM is having him tour through the Universities. I guess they have no interest in publishing, so their agenda is different from ours. Hsu did say that these tours are the promised "publishing", so I think that general interest publishing is all that we'll see, unless someone attends one of these, and is better at asking the right questions than I was. Maybe Bob Hyatt could get him to speak at UAB. > >An example of good scientific style is given by NEC: In August 97 >the Othello playing programm LOGISTELLO beat the human world champion >decisively by 6:0. The author of LOGISTELLO is Michael Buro, and he >had been working in the NEC research laboratory in Princeton. >Originally his contract would have ended in September 97, but NEC gave >him another full year with the only invitation to write technical papers >about LOGISTELLO in this time. A model for IBM ?! Ingo Althoefer. > PS: As I understand, Amir Ban has "the" DB >outputs of game 2. Would he be willing to share them with us ? My understanding is that Amir has printouts for moves 35 and 36 only, which were the moves in question at the time of the match by Kasparov. I believe he would have like to have had the entire log, but it wasn't given. kp
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