On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM’s Deep ...

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 ...

Big Blue talks up its exotic Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the first module of which is a relatively small, dishwasher-size machine that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second. Stephen ...

Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous ...

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 ...

Fresh from setting a record for performance among supercomputers just a few days ago, IBM today announced that it is making a commercial version of its Blue Gene system available for businesses and ...

On this day in 1996, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. Deep Blue’s victory is considered a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence and has ...

Blue Gene/L supercomputer is added to a program that rents processing power, Big Blue is expected to announce Friday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...