Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born February 27, 1942) is an American

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, games researcher, and inventor of the famous

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, which was published in 1970. He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD Thesis on

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at the Computer Science Department of the

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Education

Albert Zobrist received his

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at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and a Masters in

and PhD in

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from the

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Computer chess

While affiliated with the

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and the

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, Zobrist researched on computer chess, and was along with

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and

Charles Kalme Charles Ivars Kalme ( lv, Kārlis Ivars Kalme, November 15, 1939 – March 20, 2002) was a Latvian American chess master and a mathematician. Kalme was born in Riga, Latvia on November 15, 1939. At the conclusion of World War II, Kalme and wh ...

co-author of the chess programs USC CP and Tyro, participating at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.A Memorial to BRUTE FORCE
by Louis Kessler

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zobrist, Albert Lindsey 1942 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni American computer scientists Place of birth missing (living people)