May 11 marks Deep Blue's historic chess win over Kasparov and key events shaping technology, politics, culture, and global ...

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

On May 11, 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game rematch in New York.

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

More than a century after its founding, IBM has become a major player in the AI revolution. Here's how it happened.

Twenty years ago IBM’s Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match. The supercomputer’s success against an ...