Vol. 17, No. 9	Oct. 30, 1997

Deep Blue designer visits campus

More than 200 persons attended a talk on IBM's Deep Blue Computer Chess Project by C. J. Tan (right), senior manager of IBM's Application Systems Technologies Department, on Oct. 21. According to organizer Ashfaq Khokar (left), electrical and computer engineering, Tan talked about the factors behind the design of the computer and how it has opened up new avenues of research. He later fielded several questions from the floor. Abraham Bosch, president of the Chess Club at UD, and student Stephen Smith played Big Blue with the games projected to the audience. Both lost, as did world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the historic match between man and machine.

Photo by Jack Buxbaum