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Subject: Re: A couple of interesting links

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:04:04 04/20/99

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On April 20, 1999 at 20:47:52, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On April 20, 1999 at 16:54:30, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>There is an article about Deep Blue by Hsu in te IEEE Micro magazine, see:
>>
>>http://www.computer.org/micro/mi1999/m2toc.htm
>>
>>Only available for download by IEEE members I think.
>>
>>
>>Also, at:
>>
>>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/
>>
>>there is an updated list of the WCCC9 participants that has information about
>>most of the participants.  Unfortunately the Rebel entry contains a whole heap
>>of marketing information that seems entirely inappropriate.
>
>My own description is very sparse, but I included a pointer to myself, meaning I
>suggested that people send me email and ask questions.
>
>I have been reading program descriptions for a long time, and I've gone back
>through old ICCAJ's and read every program description from every event.
>Sometimes you get an idea, and they are usually at least somewhat interesting
>and fun to read.
>
>I am bothered by the recent trend (past few years) of simply listing how well
>the program has done in past events.  It's not like I expect people to give away
>secrets in these descriptions, but the complete lack not only of technical
>details, but any form of technical comment at all, is a bad trend.
>
>bruce

Actually, I'll bet a lot of people would appreciate descriptions of the
programmers more than the programs!!! (Just a thought.)

James



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