He's a former CEO and also a corporate lawyer, so he gave us a lot of valuable advice about business, and also did all the legal work of getting us set up as a company.
Begun at IBM in the late 80's, the Deep Blue project was an attempt at using parallel processing to solve a difficult problem - namely, beating the best chess player in the world, Garry Kasparov.
We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed.
Indeed, it is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed in any longer.