Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the famous Zobrist Hashing, which was published in 1970.[1] He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD Thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.[2]

Education

Albert Zobrist received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Computer chess

While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched on computer chess, and was along with Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme co-author of the chess programs USC CP and Tyro,[3] participating at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Albert Zobrist (1970), A New Hashing Method with Application for Game Playing. Technical Report #88, Computer Science Department, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Reprinted (1990) in ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
  2. ↑ Albert Zobrist (1970), Feature Extraction and Representation for Pattern Recognition and the Game of Go. Ph.D. Thesis (152 pp.), University of Wisconsin. Also published as technical report
  3. ↑ Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  4. ↑ A Memorial to BRUTE FORCE by Louis Kessler
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