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Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May 1997 against IBM's Deep Blue computer in New York. Kasparov lost this match in just 19 moves giving overall victory to Deep Blue with a score of 2.5-3.5 (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images) This week's milestones in the history of technology include the invention of the integrated circuit, the first singing telegram, and the first widely-publicized triumph of the machines over humans. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments (TI) files for a patent on the integrated circuit. For this invention he received the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics. The notion of an integrated circuit was there.