Title:
Oral History of Monty Newborn

Date:
2005-02-28

Pages:
9 p.

Interviewer:
Spicer, Dag; interviewer
Newborn, Monty; interviewee

Abstract:
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.

Keywords:
Newborn, Monty
AI
computer music
Computer chess
ACM
consciousness
Computer art
hash tables
alpha beta
minimax
heuristics
iteratively-deepening depth-first search
Botvinnik
ITEP
selective search
McCarthy-Kotok
Donskoi
KAISSA
Hyatt, Robert
Kasparov

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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