Kotok, Alan oral history
In 1959, MIT freshmen Alan Kotok, Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Michael Lieberman, Charles Niessen, and Robert A. Wagner started working on a chess-playing program based on research by artificial intelligence pioneer professor John McCarthy. By the time they had graduated in 1962, the program could beat amateurs.
Item Details
- Date
- 2004-11-04 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102657916
- Other identifying number
- OHP 088 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Alan Kotok (Interviewee)
Gardner Hendrie (Videographer)
Gardner Hendrie (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 56 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/MA/Cambridge
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X3004.2005
- Subject
- MIT
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection