Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:12 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 08:48:34, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 12, 2004 at 03:45:44, martin fierz wrote: > >>i won't claim shannon wasn't american. but AFAIK turing was there first. he was >>the guy who played a computer chess game by computing moves of his program >>himself on pieces of paper ;-) > >I think there is some confusion as to who was first. Some websites say Turing >wrote his program in 1947, while Shannon described his program in 1949. Another >says Turing was in 1951, while Shannon was in 1950. I've always heard Shannon >was first, for whatever that's worth. I believe Shannon _was_ first. IE he formulated minmax. Prior to that, I don't know how someone would have done this whether they used a real computer or a simulation, as minmax had to come first.
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