http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/ Engadget Comments for Supercomputer Huygens beats Go professional: no one is safe http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
Fail. Just like pretty much all of your other posts.]]>Aug 15th 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
-Carl]]>Aug 15th 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
Here's it:
http://ln2.us/8016b2]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
and Uchiha Sasuke they really need to make a pun program for that to give you puns]]>Aug 15th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/It's Portland, Oregon so who knows.

"You have Died Of Dysentery."]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
or not...]]>Aug 15th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
Jesus, these algorithms need some cleaning up.]]>Aug 15th 2008 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
The go AI community has been trying to do this better for a great number of years, but there are some very tough challenges involved with teaching computers to play go well.

Also, I'd like to say that a nine-stone handicap is a huge, huge advantage. Not only is it nine free moves at the start of the game for the computer, but it makes the computer's job much easier. By having nine stones on the board, the computer effectively gets to sidestep its worst phase of the game, the opening, and move right into something it is much better at, tactical fighting.]]>Aug 15th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/]]>Aug 15th 2008 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 16th 2008 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 17th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
Cmon, let's "GO" HOME!

LOL!]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
ps. teraflop = blackzilla]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://files.gokgs.com/games/2008/8/7/MyungWan-MoGoTiTan-4.sgf Also, I'm not sure where the name Hyugens came from - the program's name is MoGo. Maybe Hyugens is the computer it ran on. ]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
The game record can be found here: http://www.usgo.org/congress/2008/myungwan-mogo.sgf]]>Aug 15th 2008 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 16th 2008 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/9-stone is not GO.
Come on Engadget, don't be so innocent. You gotta understand the stuff before you comment.
and Please bring yourself a pair of glasses and turn on the light when you read.
Here is the original research report.

http://www.sara.nl/news/press/20080813/Go_computer_victory_eng.html

Amsterdam/Portland, August 13, 2008 - At the 24th Annual Congress of the game Go, held in Portland, Oregon from August 2-10, the brand-new Dutch supercomputer Huygens defeated a human Go professional in an official match with a 9-stones handicap. It is the first victory of a computer playing Go against a human being. The application 'MoGo Titan', developed by INRIA France and Maastricht University, runs on the national supercomputer which is located at SARA Computing an Networking Services in Amsterdam. ]]>Aug 15th 2008 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/Aug 15th 2008 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/supercomputer-huygens-beats-go-professional-no-one-is-safe/
*sigh* i used to love the Hikaru no Go theme song
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