

It was the first time that the world witnessed the historic event of a computer being worthy contender to one of the world’s sharpest mind. In 1997, the Deep Blue system of IBM defeated the world chess champion, Gary Kasparov. Campbell is still with IBM today, in the role of senior manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department within IBM Research. Deep Blue, An Artificial Intelligence Milestone. He was the recipient of an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on the Deep Blue project. In 1997 Deep (er) Blue even beat the famous Garry. For comparison, one of the most powerful computers, Deep (er) Blue, was able to squeeze out 200 million moves per second. The Intel Core i7-8550U managed to get 10.675 million moves per second. Campbell’s main role on the team was the development of the evaluation function-the component of Deep Blue that assesses the value of the current position. Fritz is a chess benchmark that tests the computing capabilities of the CPU with various chess moves. Both Campbell and Hsu joined IBM in 1989. The two teamed up in the autumn of 1986 to construct a chess-playing computer, ChipTest, which eventually evolved into Deep Blue. At Carnegie Mellon he met a fellow doctoral student named Feng-hsiung Hsu, who had developed a single-chip chess move generator.

He left Canada to enroll at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his PhD in 1987 for his work on chunking as an abstraction mechanism in solving complex problems. He specialized in parallel search in the context of chess, a discipline that served him well in developing massively parallel computers like Deep Blue. Murray Campbell received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computing science from the University of Alberta in 1981.
