Unless IBM's Watson can do more than play Jeopardy ... holds the most prominent of historic places. The Russian world chess champion defeated IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996, then lost ...

Watson isn’t the first IBM computer to defeat a human in competition. In 1997, the chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue beat champion Garry Kasparov. Watson entered Wednesday night’s ...

IBM’s supercomputer Watson performed quite a stunt on Jeopardy ... computer generations ago – the globally-watched 1997 chess match between Big Blue and chess master Gary Kasparov.

Chess-playing calculators emerged in the late ... all these things could produce some remarkable results. The IBM Watson system that played Jeopardy! used a machine-learning-based system that ...

in the show's first and only human-versus-machine match.HO / AFP / Getty Images Watson's most recent significant antecedent is IBM's chess -playing Deep Blue, which faced off against World Chess ...

Watson, IBM’s supercomputer ... but I’m not overly focused on the win or loss myself,’ he said. ‘In Chess, as finite as it is, there’s a finite number of moves. But in this there ...

Watson follows Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer that ultimately defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997. Kelly said the lessons IBM learned from developing Watson would be applicable ...

Inside IBM, Watson was thought of as a technology that ... IBM made a similar — and successful — bet with its chess-playing Deep Blue computer, which beat the world chess champion Garry ...

IBM would soon go on to make Watson the centerpiece of its AI strategy ... “Today’s AI systems are great in beating you at chess or Jeopardy,” said Kumar Srinivas, who is the Health Plan ...