History of IBM: Company timeline, milestones & facts
It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s (IBM) Deep Blue supercomputer in New York City. Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster, had previously beaten an earlier version of the system in a six-game match in Philadelphia in 1996, though the computer […]
