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Subject: Re: Claude Shannon

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 09:59:06 02/27/01

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On February 27, 2001 at 10:00:48, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>Hi,
>Claude Shannon has passed away.  Shannon was one of the true greats of the
>'first age' of computing, and amoung his many contributions was the first real
>paper on how a computer might play chess.
>
>http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html
>
>Thanks to SlashDot for the news and link.
>
>Peter
>
>p.s. Don Bradman (greatest cricket player ever, daylight second) also passed
>away a couple of days ago.



Thanks for the post. Some of Shannon's idea about computer chess are still the
heart of many computer chess programs.

The quiescence search for example is one of Shannon's ideas.


    Christophe

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