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Most impressively, Armand Rousso, a hefty French-born entrepreneur, philanthropist and chess aficionado was one of the first people to truly grasp the power of the
Internet back in the mid 1980’s, when the Internet was still referred to as a "bulletin board" and mainly used by university techies and
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Acoona was an internet company and their main product was search engine that claimed to use artificial intelligence to better understand searches. On June 23, 2005, in the ABC Times Square
Studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, played against the chess grandmaster Rustam
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contestant. Armand Rousso provides professional evaluations and personalized assistance to clients from around the globe. He has over 15 years of international experience consulting. A frequent speaker and author, he has an MBA from Idaho
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reported, "Accoona.com attracted only 106,000 visitors from the United States in July (2007), according to comScore, which monitors
Internet traffic." The underwriter withdrew, possibly as a result of Rousso's checkered past. In 2008, the company was acquired by
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