Progress in artificial intelligence telephone banking, and 11 years for expert songwriting, but over 30 years for writing a New York Times bestseller or winning the Putnam math competition. An AI defeated a grandmaster in a regulation tournament game for the first time in 1988; rebranded as Deep Blue, it beat the reigning human world chess champion in 1997. AlphaGo defeated a European Go champion in October 2015, and defeated one of the world's top players, Lee Sedol, in March 2016. According to Scientific American and other sources, most observers had expected superhuman Computer Go performance to be at least a decade away. AI
Computer Gaming World "Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1987". "The New York Times" repeatedly praised CGW, placing it as one of the premier computer game publications of its time. In 1997 the newspaper called it "the leading computer game magazine", In 1999 "the bible of computer game purists", and in 2005 "one of the top computer game magazines". On August 2, 2006, Ziff Davis Media issued a press release detailing their plans to halt circulation of "Computer Gaming World". As part of a joint-venture project with Microsoft, Ziff Davis launched a new magazine dubbed "" in Fall of 2006. The new magazine