Monty Newborn

Monroe "Monty" Newborn (* 21st May 1938 ) is a retired computer science - Professor of McGill University of Montreal . From 1970 he organized the North American Computer Chess Championship and worked from 1981 to 1997 as Chairman of the Computer Chess - Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery , the ACM Computer Chess Committee . In 1996 he organized Deep Blue's competition against Garry Kasparov (also known as the ACM Chess Challenge ), which the human world chess champion won 4-2 against the supercomputer . In the historic rematch in May 1997, won by the “machine” ( artificial intelligence ), Monty Newborn was the lead official .

Life

Monty Newborn was awarded in 1967 by the Ohio State University the Ph.D. ( Doctor ) of Electrical Engineering . He was then a university professor for this subject as well as for computer science, initially at Columbia University in New York , and from 1975 at McGill University, from 1976 to 1983 there as director of the computer science institute. Since 1994 he has been a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and since 2001 a member of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame ( German  chess hall of fame ). His research includes artificial intelligence with a special focus on chess programs , such as Ostrich in the 1970s , as well as mathematical proof programs such as Octopus and Theo .

From 1983 to 1986 he was President of the International Computer Chess Association ICCA ( German  " International Computer Chess Association " ), today's International Computer Games Association ICGA ( German  "International Computer Games Association " ).

Publications (selection)

• Beyond Deep Blue - Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer 2011, ISBN 978-0857293404
• Deep Blue - An Artificial Intelligence Milestone. Springer 2003
• Automated Theorem Proving - Theory and Practice. Springer, 2001
• Deep Blue - Computer Chess Comes of Age. Springer, 1997
• How Computers Play Chess with David Levy , Freeman, NY, 1991
• All About Chess and Computers with D. Levy, Computer Sci Press, Potomac, MD, 1982
• More Chess and Computers. with D. Levy, Computer Sci Press, Potomac, MD, 1980
• Computer Chess , Academic Press, NY, 1975

Web links

• Portrait photo accessed November 27, 2017
• Homepage accessed on November 27, 2017
• Biography in the Computer History Museum , accessed November 27, 2017
• List of his publications , accessed November 27, 2017
• Photo from the 1983 WCCC in New York. Monty Newborn between the two computer chess pioneers Ken Thompson (left) and Michail Botwinnik (right), on the far left is Don Beal , accessed on November 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Once Again, Machine Beats Human Champion at Chess Article in The New York Times, December 5, 2006, accessed November 27, 2017
2. ↑ Record participation in the Computer Chess World Cup in Computer Chess and Games (CSS), No. 3, 1986, p. 18 / II