Monroe "Monty" Newborn (born May 21, 1938), former chairman of the Computer Chess Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery,The New York Times is a professor emeritus of computer science at McGill University in MontrealOnce Again, Machine Beats Human Champion at Chess (formerly professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University).Habitats tomorrow: homes and communities in an exciting new era : selections from The futurist, Edward Cornish, World Future Society He briefly served as president of the International Computer Chess Association and co-wrote a computer chess program named Ostrich In the 1970's.Habitats tomorrow: homes and communities in an exciting new era : selections from The futurist, Edward Cornish, World Future Society
Biography Monty Newborn received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1967. He was an assistant professor and associate professor at Columbia University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1967 to 1975. In 1975, he joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University and has been with the School since then, serving as its director from 1976 to 1983. He was the chairman of the ACM Computer Chess Committee since the early 1980s. His chess program, Ostrich, competed in five world championships dating back to 1974. He served as president of the International Computer Chess Association from 1983 to 1986. He retired from the faculty of McGill University in 2008.
A notable quote by Newborn on the science of chess AI programming occurred in 2006: “I don’t know what one could get out of it at this point. The science is done,” Monty Newborn, Dec. 2006 in reference to world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s loss to Deep Fritz, 4-2, and the prospect of further human-computer matches. Newborn was belatedly correct; as of 2021, that was the last serious attempt by a world class player to defeat a top chess machine/program.
Bibliography Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone. Springer-Verlag, 2003 Automated Theorem Proving: Theory and Practice. Springer-Verlag, 2001 Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age. Springer-Verlag, 1997 How Computers Play Chess. with D. Levy, WH. Freeman, NY, 1991 All About Chess and Computers. with D. Levy, Computer Sci Press, Potomac, MD, 1982 More Chess and Computers. with D. Levy, Computer Sci Press, Potomac, MD, 1980 Computer Chess. Academic Press, NY, 1975 McGill Newborn
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