On this day in 1997, the world’s chess champion was beaten by IBM’s Deep Blue
The architecture used to help Deep Blue become the king of chess went on to be used in financial modeling, data mining, and molecular dynamics, where it helped discover and develop new drugs.
On May 11, 1997, IBM Deep Blue beat the World Chess Champion. Why was that significant? https://t.co/vwgH3OI1P2 pic.twitter.com/sMkHJVqLCf
— IBM (@IBM) May 11, 2016