Here is a quote from the May 19, 1996 Edupage:
-> DEEP BLUE DEBRIEFING
-> IBM's Deep Blue computer was programmed to evaluate a total of about
-> 20 billion moves within the three-minute window allotted for each
-> move in a formal chess match.  That capability is enough to consider
-> every possible move and countermove 12 sequences ahead and selected
-> lines of attack as much as 30 moves beyond that.  The fact that this
-> omniscience was not enough to beat a mere human is "amazing," says
-> one of Deep Blue's programmers.  The lesson here, says another, is
-> that chess masters such as Kasparov "are doing some mysterious
-> computation we can't figure out."  Still, the IBM team got what it
-> needed out of the match -- their goal has always been research to
-> show how parallel processing can be used for solving complex problems
-> such as airline scheduling or drug design, not to be world chess
-> champions. After all, this *is* IBM, says an IBM PR person.
-> (Scientific American May 96 p16)
Besides the comments about the abilities of the human mind, I think this
also underscores the position that computers will not be able to replace
human teachers in the classroom.
Sheila
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