It isn't so much man versus machine as man versus the man behind the machine. Famously, in 1997 the Russian chess grandmaster and world champion Garry Kasparov faced IBM's supercomputer RS/600SP, known as Deep Blue, in New York City. But behind the faceless machine was another genius, its Taiwan-born architect Dr Fen Hsiung Hsu. Both had much at stake " and not just a game of chess. Kasparov sought undisputed suprema…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:51AM on July 14, 2013