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===Milestones and Moore's Law===

On 11 May 1997, [[IBM Deep Blue|Deep Blue]] became the first computer chess-playing system to beat a reigning world chess champion, [[Garry Kasparov]].<ref>{{Harvnb|McCorduck|2004|pp=480–483}}</ref> In 2005, a Stanford robot won the [[DARPA Grand Challenge]] by driving autonomously for 131 miles along an unrehearsed desert trail.<ref>[http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/ DARPA Grand Challenge -- home page]</ref>. Two years later, a team from [[Carnegie Mellon University]]CMU won the [[DARPA Urban Challenge]] by autonomously navigating 55 miles in an Urban environment while adhering to traffic hazards and all traffic laws<ref>[http://archive.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/]</ref>. In February 2011, in a [[Jeopardy!]] [[quiz show]] exhibition match, [[IBM]]'s [[question answering system]], [[Watson (artificial intelligence software)|Watson]], defeated the two greatest Jeopardy! champions, [[Brad Rutter]] and [[Ken Jennings]], by a significant margin.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/17jeopardy-watson.html | work=The New York Times | first=John | last=Markoff | title=On ‘Jeopardy!' Watson Win Is All but Trivial | date=16 February 2011}}</ref>

These successes were not due to some revolutionary new paradigm, but mostly on the tedious application of engineering skill and on the tremendous power of computers today.<ref>