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Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @08:52PM from the mysterious-ways dept.

FFriedel writes "For over two years now ChessBase has been working on Brutus, a 'mini Deep Blue' running on an FPGA platform. What is taking them so long? Apparently the project has moves in a somewhat different direction. The author of Brutus, Dr Christian Donninger, revealed he was approached by the US National Science Foundation to participate in the development of a bionic chess interface."

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And I thought CIA put it in my dental fillings! (Score:1)

by Muhammar ( 659468 ) writes:

"The electrodes that are inserted into the hippocampus are microscopic in size and delivered to their final place through a thin injection needle. The skull and cranium cavities are not opened, the entire procedure is performed under local anasthetics."
Damn it! (Score:2)

by SiMac ( 409541 ) writes:

Damn April Fools day...is this a joke or not!?
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  by spike hay ( 534165 ) writes:
  
  Yeah. There was a legit story a few days back about artificial implantable hippocampuses being developed. It's to restore long term memory function in Alzheimer's patients. But nothing about playing chess.
Yes, April fools... (Score:1)

by MacroRex ( 548024 ) writes:

Yet another april fools. The pictures taken from this article [newscientist.com]. Yesterday was completely ludicruous, and it seems that today will be only marginally better. *sigh*
I need sleep (Score:2)

by MrResistor ( 120588 ) writes:

I first read that as Bionic Cheese Interface, and spent far too much time pondering why someone would want bionic cheese...
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  by cei ( 107343 ) writes:
  
  What's to ponder? Faster, Stronger, Little, Yellow, Different, Better. Oh wait, that's Bionic Nuprin...
April Fool's ... (Score:1)

by MoobY ( 207480 ) writes:

... ought to stop once it becomes 2nd of April!

Once you start reading the article it all makes sense, but once they start throwing in chess-playing rats that are more interested in their food it gets obvious.
Impressive (Score:1)

by Omegalomaniac ( 26573 ) writes:

They used the names of actually professors who have relevant research areas in the article. Besides the blatently stolen newscientist diagram and the 3 minute photo shopped rat picture, it was generally a good hoax. And it will only become more believable as time goes on.
Counting Cards ... Definately definately.... (Score:1)

by A55M0NKEY ( 554964 ) writes:

I want a blackjack interface please!

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