Campbell, Hoane and Hsu: Deep Blue

What changed

Documented Deep Blue's parallel search, evaluation and database design for 1997 match.

Scientific scope

The target is the exact three-author paper published in 2002 about the 1997 system. It does not turn the full IBM team into this paper’s byline, establish general intelligence or absorb later chess engines and reinforcement-learning systems.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The target is the exact three-author paper published in 2002 about the 1997 system. It does not turn the full IBM team into this paper’s byline, establish general intelligence or absorb later chess engines and reinforcement-learning systems.

Contributors

• Murray Campbell · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• A. Joseph Hoane Jr. · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Feng-Hsiung Hsu · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Publisher record for Deep Blue paper
• Archived full text of Deep Blue paper

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