Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM, defeated world chess champion, Garry Kasparov at a match that took place in New York City. It consisted of six games, with Deep Blue emerging ahead in the first round, and Kasparov winning the second game and drawing the next three. In the final, Deep Blue emerged victorious, a milestone in the development of AI and machine learning. Development of Deep Blue began in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University under the name ChipTest. It had the ability to evaluate 200 million positions per second and its use of a database of over 4 million grandmaster games to help it make decisions.

Today, the National Museum of American History holds one of the two…