Murray Campbell

Murray D. Campbell (* 1957 in Edmonton ) is a Canadian computer scientist and computer chess pioneer . In the 1990s he developed the Deep Blue chess computer at IBM , which in 1997 became the first computer in the world to win a chess competition under tournament conditions against the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov .

Life

Murray Campbell studied computer science at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1979 with a B.Sc. and in 1981 with the M.Sc. from. In 1987 he received his Ph.D. (PhD) from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . In the 1980s, under the direction of the American correspondence chess world champion and computer chess pioneer Hans Berliner (1929-2017) together with Carl Ebeling and Gordon Goetsch, he developed the HiTech chess calculator , which won the North American computer chess championship in 1985 and 1989 .

Professionally, he is a senior manager at the American IT -Unternehmen IBM and works in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights in the State of New York . In 1989 he and his Taiwanese colleague Feng-hsiung Hsu researched parallel computation . This work resulted in the new chess supercomputer Deep Blue ( German "Tiefblau" ), the name being explained as an homage to his employer IBM, whose company color is blue and which is known in the USA as "Big Blue" . In 1997, Deep Blue achieved the historic first victory in the competition of the “machine” ( artificial intelligence ) against the human chess world champion.

Murray Campbell is an excellent pianist and also played tournament chess himself. At FIDE it is listed with an Elo rating of 2105.

Feng-hsiung Hsu: Behind Deep Blue - Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. Princeton University Press , 2004, ISBN 0-691-11818-3

personal data
SURNAME	Campbell, Murray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Campbell, Murray D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian computer scientist and computer chess pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edmonton