It was the classic battle of man versus machine. On May 3, 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off with IBM’s (IBM) Deep Blue supercomputer in New York City. Kasparov, a Russian chess ...

Thomas Watson Jr. bet billions on IBM’s shift from punched cards to electronic computing, transforming the company through the System/360 and a $5-billion investment.

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