Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 16:41:05 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 15:02:18, Amir Ban wrote: >On August 19, 1998 at 14:20:58, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>>I attended Feng-hsiung Hsu's talk on Deep Blue at Hot Chips 10, and >>>asked a few questions afterwards. He described the chip and its >>>performance. >> >>>Here's what he said: >> >>[ impressive stuff snipped ] >> >>>Hsu is negotiating with IBM for rights to the chip, and plans to >>>commercialize it. >> >>Maybe we the chess community should help Hsu and sent IBM a petition >>signed by a few thousand Internet people? >> >>People with a home page (ICD, Gambit Soft, ChessBase, me) can put >>the petition on their web-sites so people can sign? >> >>Silly idea? >> > >No, just hopeless. > >Hsu's estimate at the PR value of Deep-Blue (2 billion $) is about right. The >potential damage of the thing playing again is huge. I guess if Hsu gets too >persistent with this, IBM may pay him a few million $ just to drop it. > >Amir Well, IBM makes the SP2s that tied the 480 chess processors together. It was the whole thing that was Deep Blue, and not just a chess processor chip. Hsu has already stated that if he gets rights to the chip, he will not be able to call it Deep Blue, Baby Blue, or anything similar. So IBM will not have that to worry about. I think he will get the rights. He seemed pretty determined. I also think that if Ed were to approach him with a marketing plan, he would pursue it with even more energy. kp
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