IBM Deep Thunder in 1996, where it ran for several months and produced multiple forecasts daily. After a few years of development, the team set up an implementation in New York City in 2001 to test the project. The group is currently working on establishing the Rio de Janeiro operations center. The name Deep Thunder arose after the IBM Deep Blue system played and defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in May, 1997. In the following November, a journalist used the name Deep Thunder in an article, which stuck with the developers. Deep Thunder uses a 3D telescoping grid where data from
Music for Reliquary House / In 1980 I Was a Blue Square Point Never side "Music for Reliquary House", a composition and set of remixes of audio Lopatin produced for Nate Boyce's audiovisual project "Reliquary House". The primary sounds of the composition are bits of computer-produced human speech reconstructed into new sounds. The second half, "In 1980 I Was A Blue Square" by Rene Hell, is a suite of minimalist contemporary classical music that also includes electronic sounds. For both Daniel Lopatin and Jeff Witscher, Music For Reliquary House and In 1980 I Was A Blue Square are shifts from their early synthesizer-heavy recordings to electroacoustic music. "Pitchfork" journalist Nick Neyland called