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Photos: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke

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March 19, 2008 5:04 PM PDT

In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer took on chess grand master Garry Kasparov, becoming the first computer to beat a grandmaster. Though Deep Blue was not directly influenced by Clarke or 2001, there are those who see Hal in its roots.

Photo by IBM

Caption by Daniel Terdiman

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