Thur Sep 16 Lecture

Alex Bernstein versus the IBM 704... That IBM 704 totally had Mr. Bernstein sweating up a storm in that game of chess. Watching that video was definitely a blast from the past. It's amazing to see how far computers have come along since then. A computer literally went from a room filled with refrigerator sized machines to a handheld device in a few decades. Who ever would have guessed that a computer would be able to communicate with a human being in a game of chess and be able to point out when the player makes an illegal move! Today it really isn't that big of a deal because I am sure we all have chess on our phones or computers and have a visual on there as well. The only thing I wasn't sure about was how they punched in the positions of all the chess pieces into the computer. Quite astonishing to be honest...