Could Feng-Hsiung Hsu project beat Mr. Habu in Shogi ?

[pichy]

On 00/01/10 at 20:39 -0500, Larry Kaufman provided us with the
following quote from Feng-Hsiung Hsu (co-author of Deep Blue):

>"The only chance that you would ever see the chess chip commercialized
>would be if someday I decide to build a shogi chip. Then you might see a
>new chess chip designed as a by-product. I would not hold my breath though.
>I have some other interests that have higher priorities."
>
Maybe, these are his interests:

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Jorge,just one question:
Why do you keep posting non-tournament topics in the tournament section of the forum
Why don't you post in the general forum
I have the feeling that your soul is stuck here in the tournament section forever
Dr.D

[mschribr]

On 00/01/10 at 20:39 -0500, Larry Kaufman provided us with the
following quote from Feng-Hsiung Hsu (co-author of Deep Blue):

>"The only chance that you would ever see the chess chip commercialized
>would be if someday I decide to build a shogi chip. Then you might see a
>new chess chip designed as a by-product. I would not hold my breath though.
>I have some other interests that have higher priorities."
>
Maybe, these are his interests:

When you say "Maybe, these are his interests" What interests are you referring to?
Feng-Hsiung Hsu now works for Microsoft. In his spare time he is working on a go program. He wrote about it in IEEE. I don’t think he will come back to chess or even try shogi. As go is much harder than shogi and shogi is much harder than chess. It seems he looking for a harder challenge.
Mark

[pichy]

On 00/01/10 at 20:39 -0500, Larry Kaufman provided us with the
following quote from Feng-Hsiung Hsu (co-author of Deep Blue):

>"The only chance that you would ever see the chess chip commercialized
>would be if someday I decide to build a shogi chip. Then you might see a
>new chess chip designed as a by-product. I would not hold my breath though.
>I have some other interests that have higher priorities."
>
Maybe, these are his interests:

When you say "Maybe, these are his interests" What interests are you referring to?
Feng-Hsiung Hsu now works for Microsoft. In his spare time he is working on a go program. He wrote about it in IEEE. I don’t think he will come back to chess or even try shogi. As go is much harder than shogi and shogi is much harder than chess. It seems he looking for a harder challenge.
Mark

Maybe, these are his interests:

IBM unveils $100 million research initiative to build world's fastest
supercomputer: "Blue Gene" to tackle protein folding grand challenge

<http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/12/06.phtml>

On December 6, IBM announced a new $100 million exploratory research
initiative to build a supercomputer 500 times more powerful than the
world's fastest computers today.

The new computer -- nicknamed "Blue Gene" by IBM researchers -- will
be capable of more than one quadrillion operations per second (one
petaflop). This level of performance will make Blue Gene 1,000 times
more powerful than the Deep Blue machine that beat world chess
champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, and about 2 million times more
powerful than today's top desktop PCs.

Blue Gene's massive computing power will initially be used to model
the folding of human proteins, making this fundamental study of
biology the company's first computing "grand challenge" since the Deep
Blue experiment. Learning more about how proteins fold is expected to
give medical researchers better understanding of diseases, as well as
potential cures.

"This is exactly what IBM Research does best -- continuously placing
big, aggressive bets on technologies that change the future of
computing," said Dr. Paul M. Horn, senior vice president of IBM
Research. "In many ways, Deep Blue got a better job today -- if this
computer unlocks the mystery of how proteins fold, it will be an
important milestone in the future of medicine and healthcare."

[...]

[mschribr]

Maybe, these are his interests:

IBM unveils $100 million research initiative to build world's fastest
supercomputer: "Blue Gene" to tackle protein folding grand challenge

These are ibm interests, making big public relations stunts. This project was from 10 years ago. Did this project produce anything useful? I never heard Blue Gene making any significant science contribution. But this has nothing to do with Feng-Hsiung Hsu. Feng-Hsiung Hsu works at Microsoft not ibm.
Mark