May 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1858, Minnesota joined the United States as the 32nd state. In 1862, the Confederate navy destroyed its iron-clad vessel Merrimac to prevent it from falling ...
It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s ...
SAN JOSE — IBM’s research achievements are legendary: the hard drive; DRAM; the relational database; DES data encryption; Deep Blue, the chess-playing supercomputer; Blue Gene, its DNA-simulating ...
Three notebooks of photocopied press clippings relating to the May, 1997, chess rematch between chess champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer and its programmers. Kasparov first played ...