Title:
Oral History of Alan Kotok

Date:
2004-11-04

Pages:
56 p.

Interviewer:
Hendrie, Gardner; interviewer, cameraperson
Kotok, Alan; interviewee

Abstract:
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.

Keywords:
MIT
chess software
model railroad club
Kotok, Alan

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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