Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 18:19:14 08/19/98
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>>>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. I think you are right. Ok, I drop the idea. - Ed - >Amir >>Well, I want that thing :-) >>- Ed - >>>David Fotland
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