Three stories from the years the network stopped being a private club. Robert Tappan Morris tells his program to stay one time in seven, and it stays. Matt Blaze, with a borrowed card and forty-two minutes, finds the hole in the government's spare key to every lock. And in a Manhattan office tower Feng-hsiung Hsu's chess machine makes a move that Garry Kasparov takes for depth. It was something else.
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- In this chapter
- Robert Tappan Morris, Andy Sudduth, Matt Blaze, Phil Zimmermann, Eric Hughes, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Garry Kasparov
- The idea it builds
- How a chess machine searches: every reply to every reply, a score for each final position, and the move whose worst case is least bad.