Tony Marsland
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 ".
Web links
- Portrait photo accessed December 6, 2017
- Homepage accessed on December 6, 2017
- T. Anthony Marsland and Jonathan Schaeffer (Editors): Computers, Chess, and Cognition. Preview (English), Springer-Verlag , New York, 1990, ISBN 978-1461390824
- Tony Marsland in ChessProgramming Wiki (English) accessed on December 6, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Marsland: Who am I. 2014 PDF; 60 kB (English) accessed on December 6, 2017
- ↑ Tony Marsland: Who am I. 2014 PDF; 60 kB (English) accessed on December 6, 2017
- ↑ 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
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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 |