Tony Marsland

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T. Anthony "Tony" Marsland (* approx. 1939 in Scotland ) is a Canadian emeritus professor of computer science and a computer chess pioneer . From 1992 to 1999 he was President of the International Computer Chess Association ICCA ( German "International Computer Chess Association " ).  

Life

Born in Scotland and moved to Kidderminster in England in 1939 , he went to school there from 1948 to 1951 and learned to play chess at an early age . In 1951 his family moved with him to Lancashire , where he attended Preston Grammar School . From 1955 he studied mathematics at the University of Nottingham . In 1960 he married Elizabeth Fox. In 1962 you went to the American company Boeing in Seattle . There he studied electrical engineering at the University of Washington and graduated in 1967 with a doctorate in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) . The subject of his dissertation was Adaptive Computer Programs - An Aid in Problem Analysis ( German  " Adaptive computer programs  - A help for problem analysis " ).

He then went to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey , where he worked as a computer scientist. He wrote his first chess program around 1970 and shortly thereafter moved to the Canadian University of Alberta , where he held a professorship in computer science for many years.

In 1992 he succeeded David Levy as President of the ICCA , today's International Computer Games Association ICGA ( German  "International Computer Games Association " ). He was involved in the organization of the famous "man against machine" duel between the world chess champion Garry Kasparov against Deep Blue .

Tony Marsland is the author of numerous scientific publications and, together with Jonathan Schaeffer, is the editor of Computers, Chess, and Cognition , a "Bible of Computer Chess ".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tony Marsland: Who am I. 2014 PDF; 60 kB (English) accessed on December 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Tony Marsland: Who am I. 2014 PDF; 60 kB (English) accessed on December 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Drosophila of Artificial Intelligence? - Dr. Alexander Reinefeld on the new "Bible of Computer Chess" in Computer Chess and Games (CSS), No. 2, 1991, pp. 45–47
personal data
SURNAME Marsland, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsland, T. Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian university professor and computer chess pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Scotland