Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:11:21 02/28/01
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On February 28, 2001 at 13:33:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... That's pretty impressive. Not only the autographed picture, but building the thing with relays. The thing must have been sort of noisy. I wonder how well the thing's construction is documented. Pete
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