Author: chandler yergin
Date: 15:08:01 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 17:04:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 26, 2005 at 16:52:10, chandler yergin wrote: > >>On April 26, 2005 at 16:35:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On April 26, 2005 at 15:46:33, chandler yergin wrote: >>> >>>>On April 26, 2005 at 14:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 26, 2005 at 12:29:27, chandler yergin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>The Fredkin Prize was $100,000 for the first team to build or program >>>>>>a computer that would defeat the World Champion in a Match! >>>>>> >>>>>>The Deep Blue Team won it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>No it wasn't >>>>> >>>>>It was a three stage prize. The first for the author of the first computer to >>>>>achieve a master chess rating. Awarded to Belle in 1983. The second for the >>>>>first program to produce a 2600 performance rating over 25 consecutive games >>>>>against grandmaster players in long (40 moves in 2 hours or slower) games. >>>>>Awarded to deep thought in the early 1990's. The final stage was to beat the >>>>>world champion in a match. Awarded to IBM in 1997. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Your point would be??? >>>> >>>>As I Posted! >>>> >>>>The Fredkin Prize was $100,000 for the first team to build or program >>>>a computer that would defeat the World Champion in a Match! >>>> >>>>Awarded to IBM in 1997. >>>> >>>>What don't you understand? >>>> >>>>What do the previous stages have to do with what happened in 1997? >>>> >>>>Why do deliberately try and Provoke me? >>>>Hmmm? >>> >>>I answered that earlier. IBM spent _millions_ of dollars on the deep blue >>>project. The salaries were about $1M per year for the entire team, spread over >>>10 years. Not to mention the hardware, the public relations setup, the expenses >>>for Kasparov. The prize fund. And they did all of that to win $100,000.00??? >>> >>>:) >>> >>>Absolutely amazing logic. I hope you get better advise for investing for your >>>retirement, 15+ million dollars over 10 years to get a return of $100,000 is >>>_not_ very smart investing... IMHO anyway... >> >>Why can't you accept your friend HSU's own words? >>Pg 263 >>"Right after the rematch we did not believe that we would receive the >>Fredkin Prize. >>While satisfying the original intent of the Prize, >>the match did not conform to the Prize Committee's match conditions >>set a few years back, in particular the length of the match and the size of the >>prize fund." >> >>Hmmmm? > > >I don't have any idea what point you are trying to make. Perhaps that because >he wrote that statement, that somehow implies that winning the Fredkin stage III >prize was the ultimate goal of this little exercise? > >Not true. > >It was something that happened along the way, for sure. But it was not any >driving motivation for IBM as you are trying to imply. It was way too little >money for what IBM invested in the DB project... I have never implied it was the motivation of IBM.. it was the motivation of the TEAM. It was never any secret!
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