Epstein Secrets

day, holds the record for the highest chess ranking ever achieved. Some consider him one of the most intelligent people on the planet. His opponent, Deep Blue, is a massively parallel chess-playing computer built by IBM’s Watson Research Laboratory. The machine itself sits a few blocks north of the tourname

ek Island of Antikythera had cogs and gears and could accurately predict the motions of the sun and planets. Many Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, Computer History Museum, CA HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015705 16 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? of these skills were lost in the Dark Ages but, once the Renaissance was underway in

Machines were simply faster at doing brute-force calculations, had prodigious amounts of memory, and were not prone to errors. One article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual.

n undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now in the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. As a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1980s, Danny de

Machines were simply faster at doing brute-force calculations, had prodigious amounts of memory, and were not prone to errors. One article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual.

n undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now in the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. As a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1980s, Danny de