Fenghsiung Hsu

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Feng-hsiung Hsu at the WCCC 1989 [1] Feng-hsiung Hsu, (Feng-Hsiung Hsu)

a Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist and creator of the VLSI-architecture [2] of the chess entities ChipTest, Deep Thought [3] and Deep Blue [4], which defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997 [5]. Feng-hsiung Hsu came to the United States after graduating from National Taiwan University with a B.S. in electrical engineering [6]. In 1985, he started with the chip design as Ph.D. Student at the Carnegie Mellon University, defending his Ph.D. thesis on large scale parallelization of alpha-beta search in 1989 under supervision of Hsiang-Tsung Kung [7] and was then hired by IBM for the Deep Blue project [8].

Hsu now manages the platforms and devices center of Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing [9] .

Photos#

Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Mike Browne and Andreas Nowatzyk,

after winning the Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Deep Thought’s Grandmaster-level performance. [10]

Claude Shannon awards Feng-hsiung Hsu, first prize for Deep Thought, WCCC 1989 [11]

See also#

• Kasparov versus Deep Thought 1989 documentary

Selected Publications#

[12] [13]

1986 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1986). Two designs of functional units for VLSI based chess machines. Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department. Paper 1566.
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1987). A Two-Million Moves/Sec CMOS Single-Chip Chess Move Generator. IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, Vol. 22, No. 5
• Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu (1988). Singular extensions: Adding Selectivity to Brute-Force Searching. AAAI Spring Symposium, Computer Game Playing, also in ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, and (1990) in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 43, No. 1
• Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Gordon Goetsch (1988). Report on the 1988 Fredkin Masters Open. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2-3
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1988). The Software Toolworks Open Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1989). Large Scale Parallelization of Alpha-beta Search: An Algorithmic and Architectural Study with Computer Chess. Ph.D. thesis, Technical report CMU-CS-90-108, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor Hsiang-Tsung Kung

1990 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). Deep Thought. Computers, Chess, and Cognition
• Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). A Grandmaster Chess Machine. Scientific American, Vol. 263, No. 4, Online Reprint
• Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu (1990). Singular Extensions: Adding Selectivity to Brute-Force Searching. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 43, No. 1
• Robert Levinson, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Tony Marsland, Jonathan Schaeffer, David Wilkins (1991). The Role of Chess in Artificial Intelligence Research. IJCAI 1991, also in ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, pdf
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1994). Design and Implementation of a Computer Go program Archimage 1.1. Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 10

1995 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane (1995). Deep Blue System Overview. International Conference on Supercomputing, pdf
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (1999). IBM’s Deep Blue Chess Grandmaster Chips. IEEE Micro, Vol. 19, No. 2, pdf
• Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane, Feng-hsiung Hsu (1999). Search Control Methods in Deep Blue. AAAI Technical Report SS-99-07, pdf, pdf

2000 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2001). Ken Thompson and DEEP BLUE. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2
• Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane, Feng-hsiung Hsu (2002). Deep Blue. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, No. 1-2
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2002). Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. Princeton University Press

2005 …

• Dag Spicer (2005). Oral History of Feng-hsiung Hsu. pdf and video from The Computer History Museum
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2005). Hardware Related Research at Microsoft Research Asia. Advances in Computer Games 11 - Invited Lecture
• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2007). Cracking GO. IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 44, No, 10 » Go

2010 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu (2014). Doing FPGA in a former software company. FPT 2014

Forum Posts#

• World Computer Chess Championship (the human side) by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, June 04, 1989 » WCCC 1989
• Karpov-DT Match, Face to Screen by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, February 04, 1990
• alpha-beta pruning != brute force by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, September 22, 1993 » Alpha-Beta, Brute-Force
• DT2 games in ACM 94 by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, June 29, 1994 » ACM 1994
• endgame databases and Kasparov by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, April 25, 1995
• Q&A with Feng-hsiung Hsu by Andrew Williams, CCC, October 13, 2002
• Hsu’s 2nd Interview - Unedited Transcript by Steve Lim, CCC, October 19, 2002

External Links#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu from Wikipedia
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Feng-Hsiung Hsu
• Feng-hsiung Hsu’s ICGA Tournaments
• IBM100 - Deep Blue - The Team
• Oral History of Feng-Hsuing Hsu | Mastering the Game from The Computer History Museum, February 14, 2005 ( pdf)
• Chess, China, and Education: Interview with Feng-hsiung Hsu 2005

References#

1. ↑ Chess temporary, The Computer History Museum
2. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu (1987). A Two-Million Moves/Sec CMOS Single-Chip Chess Move Generator. IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, Vol. 22, No. 5
3. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). Deep Thought. Computers, Chess, and Cognition
4. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane (1995). Deep Blue System Overview. International Conference on Supercomputing
5. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu (2002). Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. Princeton University Press
6. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu from Wikipedia
7. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu (1989). Large Scale Parallelization of Alpha-beta Search: An Algorithmic and Architectural Study with Computer Chess. Ph.D. thesis, Technical report CMU-CS-90-108, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor Hsiang-Tsung Kung
8. ↑ Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane, Feng-hsiung Hsu (2002). Deep Blue. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, No. 1-2
9. ↑ Feng-hsiung Hsu from Wikipedia
10. ↑ Deep Thought team with Fredkin Intermediate Prize 1988, Gift of Feng-hsiung Hsu hosted by The Computer History Museum
11. ↑ Claude Shannon awards Feng-hsiung Hsu from The Computer History Museum
12. ↑ ICGA Reference Database
13. ↑ dblp: Feng-hsiung Hsu

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