Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:21:19 07/15/04
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On July 15, 2004 at 16:03:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 15, 2004 at 13:55:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 15, 2004 at 07:39:05, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote: >> >>> >>>And.. Did he get any consolation prize? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Teerapong >> >> >>Had to be Claude Shannon. He wrote _the_ paper on how to do a minimax search to >>play chess. Alpha-beta came later. > >This says Turning was before Shannon: >http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm > >I seem to remember someone called 'Zeiss' (or something similar) who wrote a >computer chess program in 1947. But I might be misremembering. Zeiss is a famous trade mark from Germany. Optics. Zeiss/Jena.
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