Deep Blue was the first chess computer to defeat a reigning human world chess champion in a regulation match. A number of factors contributed to the system's success, including its ability to extract useful knowledge from a database of 700,000 Grandmaster chess games—a process that has implications for any non-chess knowledge-discovery application involv-A vast database of human experience can ...

Introduction Development of deep blue-emissive materials (CIEy o 0.10) with improved physical as well as electroluminescence properties is of tremendous contemporary interest in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). It is due to the fact that deep blue-emissive materials are more energy efficient than sky blue-emissive materials, and can be utilized as hostmaterials to produce any color by a c...

As marine resources come under increasing human pressure from fishing, global warming, pollution and other changes, a group of researchers is increasing efforts to chart the catalogue of species, many of which are currently unknown to science, that inhabit marine environments little known to man. The survey of the world's oceans has so far pinpointed 38,000 marine species — and identified new f...

Participants discussed the signii-cance and ramiications of the recent chess matches for the science of artiicial intelligence. On the one hand, the workshop fostered a serious discussion of the issues related to the nature and possibility of intelligence, using Kasparov vs. Deep Blue as the context for this discussion. On the other hand, the workshop was intended to be an opportunity for the c...