14.05.2012 - 13:57 [ Guardian ]

Alan Turing: ´I am building a brain.´ Half a century later, its successor beat Kasparov

Back in 1944, at secret MI6 establishment Hanslope Park near Bletchley Park, Turing (the world‘s first computer scientist) talked of „building a brain“. This was four years before the first ‚stored program‘ computer, the ‚Manchester Baby‘, was born. The first computing revolution had hardly begun.

Scroll forward 50 years – after 22-year old Kasparov had already become the youngest chess world champion ever – and we see IBM chess playing computer Deep Blue beat the best human player in the world.