Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM, defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a match 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 could evaluate 200 million positions per second and used 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 racks that made up Deep Blue, which was previously on display in a show about the Information Age. The other rack was acquired by the Computer History Museum in 1997 and is displayed in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics section of the exhibit.