Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:34:24 11/12/98
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On November 12, 1998 at 04:02:11, Amir Ban wrote: >On November 11, 1998 at 17:29:22, Don Dailey wrote: > > >>> >>>So etiquette has already gone out the window on his part, which leaves me little >>>room to fault Hsu and company... >> >>Did Ed fault Hsu or IBM? I remembered him saying something good things >>about Hsu and the programmers. >> > >No need to fault Hsu because it was not his decision. I would guess this >decision was taken by high IBM management, but within the Deep-Blue project it >was C.J.Tan calling the shots. I doubt Hsu was even consulted on this. > >Amir I have been involved in things like this in the past (non-chess-related things.) Once you get the accountants, the legal guys, upper management, etc. into the loop, you lose control. Because it becomes all about potential revenue, public- relations, company image, intellectual property rights, potential patents, and all that sort of stuff... and less about the original idea of beating the best chess player in the world. The goal(s) of the bean-counters and legal guys is far different from the goal of the actual scientists, generally. At UAB this is not uncommon since there is so much going on here in drug development, surgical procedures, bio-engineering, etc... the original scientist often gets lost in the process...
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