Title
Newborn, Monty (Monroe) oral history
Catalog Number
102657919
Type
Document
Description
Monty Newborn was the principal organizer, along with Ben Mittman, of the annual ACM Computer Chess Championship for over twenty years and has written extensively on computer chess, from both computer science and popular perspectives. Through the 1970s and 1980s, his chess program Ostrich competed in five world championships, coming close to winning in 1974.
Date
2005-02-28
Contributor
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Newborn, Monroe, Interviewee
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Spicer, Dag, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
17 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
Newborn, Monroe; Newborn, Monty; Artificial intelligence (AI); AI; computer music; computer chess; ACM; consciousness; Computer art; hash tables; alpha beta; minimax; heuristics; selective search; iteratively-deepening depth-first search; Botvinnik; ITEP; McCarthy-Kotok; Donskoi; Kasparov; KAISSA; Hyatt, Robert
Collection Title
Oral history collection
