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the [[IBM]] sponsored successor of the chess entity [[Deep Thought]]. The project initially started in 1985 as [[ChipTest]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] by the computer science doctoral students [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]] and [[Thomas Anantharaman]]. [[Murray Campbell]], former co-developer of [[HiTech]], joined the ChipTest team a few months later.
The program was named ''Deep Thought'' after the fictional computer of the same name from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. Hsu and Campbell joined IBM in 1989, Deep Blue was developed out of this. The name is a play on Deep Thought and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Blue Big Blue], IBM's nickname.
The declared target was to become the strongest chess entity ever and to beat the human world champion, which eventually happended happened in [[Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997|1997 versus]] [[Garry Kasparov]],
winning the $100,000 [[Edward Fredkin#Prize|Fredkin prize]], awarded at the [[Conferences#AAAI-97|AAAI Conference]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island Providence, Rhode Island].
