Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:36:54 03/01/01
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On February 28, 2001 at 22:11:21, Pete Galati wrote: >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 No idea. I was impressed someone could even build such a thing in 1949. Seems almost impossible.. :) I'm sure it was written up somewhere...
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