Behind Deep Blue
Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14527145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Tomayko (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 634-635 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2003.0140 |
| OpenAlex | W2091911182 |
| Language | EN |
This is an unusual book to review for Technology and Culture. Only tangentially a history of technology, it is mostly a memoir of a key participant in the narrative, Feng-hsiung Hsu. Historians of technology can find solace in the author's oft-stated theme, that it is about "'man as a performer versus man as a toolmaker'" (p. 264). Yet most of the book seems to concentrate on the clash of strong personalities
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Champion · Computer security · Key (lock) · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Personality psychology · Psychoanalysis · Theme (computing) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · History · History of Computing Technologies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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