Author: Marc Boulé
Date: 06:28:33 10/30/02
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Kasparov sought for chess degree "Scotland's Aberdeen University is preparing to launch the world's first doctoral programme in chess this year - and is hoping former world champion Garry Kasparov will agree to lecture. Professor Peter Vas says the aim is to produce chess grandmasters, and to develop intelligent computers that can learn from their own experience. Applicants, who should be skilled in computing and mathematics, may be asked to play a chess grandmaster as part of the entrance procedure." From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1371143.stm Marc Boulé > >Most or all of the chess programmers here received some kind of formal education >in "software." The typical Computer Science degree is intended for people who >intend to reside in "the world of software" throughout their careers. > >But what about Master's Degrees? Or PhDs? > >There are many specialties withing the software world. One might assume that a >graduate software degree might involve majors, minors, or other specializations. > >What about a minor in "Chess Software"? > >Available now? > >Available in near future? > >A similar idea is to compare a software PhD to a medical doctor's education. >Typically, medical doctors have to do an internship. > >How about a Chess Software Internship? > >Carrying the anology one step further, consider MDs who decide to go back to >school to get a specialty, such as brain surgery. Could an analogous situation >be a software PhD going back to learn an advanced "Chess Software" specialty? > >Would someone like Bob Hyatt make a good advisor for something like that? > >Just curious. > >Bob D.
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