Twenty years after Deep Blue, what can AI do for us? Networks Asia

On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM's Deep Blue, which had begun life at Carnegie Mellon University as a system called ChipTest. One of Deep Blue's creators, Murray Campbell, talked to us about the other things computers have learned to do as well as, or better than, humans, and what that means for our future. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. Is it true that you and Deep Blue joined IBM at the same time? A group of us, including myself, joined IBM from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1989, but we didn't come up with the name Deep Blue until about a year later.