So many messages, so little time.

[Peter Giordano]

"Brett Coley" <bcoley at VNET.IBM.COM> said:
>Well, I think I'm gonna take a little time off, read M&D and maybe watch
>2001 and think about that humans vs machines.  Not that Kasparov was
>beaten, after all, you probably couldn't get a 100 meter dash record
>holder to race a car, for example, but that GK accused the machine of
>cheating and wanted a printout...  Better start killing some trees,
>that's gonna take a lotta paper at 200 x 10"6 evaluations per sec.  See
>you in the autumn after M&D.

I say:
I think the above is particularly interesting given the source (IBM?) - I've
been amazed by the range of reactions to DEEP BLUE v. Kasparov but
I also found it fun to follow the games "live" via the Web - Many Pynchonean
themes there

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA