Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:33:52 02/28/01
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On February 27, 2001 at 13:23:33, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear CCC, > >Bellow is annother posst abbout Claude Shannon. The guy was one smart dude. >Unless he could do twwoo things at onnce he wasn't happy. A true digital >wizard. > >Tim Frohlick > >http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAFABHXPJC.html > > >On February 27, 2001 at 12:59:06, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>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 I have a picture of him in my office, autographed by the man himself. He is bending over a chess automaton he built from relays, that would play KR vs K and mate with the KR side. He built this thing in 1949. The photo has him and Edward Lasker playing the thing...
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