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Sure, Deep Blue plays a mean game of chess. But what else can it do?
Deep Blue is at heart a massively parallel, RS/6000 SP-based computer system that was designed to play chess at the grandmaster level. But the underlying RS/6000 technology is being used to tackle complex "real world" problems like:
- Cleaning up toxic waste sites
- Forecasting the weather
- Modeling financial data
- Designing cars
- Developing innovative drug therapies
Not to mention running the occasional high-volume scalable WWW server like - you guessed it - this one.
Guest Essays
The end of an era, the beginning of another? HAL, Deep Blue and Kasparov :
by Dr. David G. Stork.From the Chief Scientist at Ricoh Silicon Valley, a paper that explores the relationship between humans and computers.
Quarantine :
by Arthur C.Clarke. In response to the challenge of creating a short story that to fit on the back of a postcard, the author of 2001 and 3001 came up with a mind-bender.
With Deep Blue technology, we all win :
By Dr. Mark F. Bregman.IBM's RS/6000 Division general manager discusses his thoughts about who ultimately benefits from the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue rematch.
History at the Chess Table :
by Monty Newborn. An exploration of the rematch's historical value from the Chairman of the ACM Chess Committee.
The Chess Mentality :
by William H. Calvin Calvin, a neurophysiologist at the University of Washington, delves into the cognition behind playing chess.
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Next Horizon:
While the rematch between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue will no doubt be interesting and exciting to watch, the game of chess itself is only a small part of a much larger picture. At the heart of the event is an important computer science experiment being conducted by the Deep Blue development team.
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