John J. Scott
John J. Scott,
a British computer scientist and early computer chess programmer. Scott’s program, also dubbed Lancaster or Scott, ran on an ICL 1909/5 mainframe computer. It played an exhibition match versus Greenblatt’s Chess Program at the 1968 IFIP conference held in Edinburgh quite well but finally lost [1]. The game was analyzed by Jack Good, published in Donald Michie’s Machine Intelligence 4 [2]. Scott’s program was further sparring partner of Alex Bell’s program Atlas, the forerunner of Master. In the 70s John Scott was affiliated with the University of London, where he defended his M.Sc and Ph.D- under supervision of Alan H. Bond.
Games Playing with Computers
Alex Bell in Games Playing with Computers [3]:
Master at IFIPS
Alex Bell in MASTER at IFIPS [4]:
Publications
- John J. Scott (1969). A chess-playing program. Machine Intelligence Vol. 4
- Jack Good (1969). Analysis of the machine chess game, J. Scott (White), ICL-1900 versus R.D. Greenblatt, PDP-10. Machine Intelligence Vol. 4
- John J. Scott (1969). Lancaster vs. Mac Hack. SIGART, Vol. 16, pp 9-11
- John J. Scott (1974). Adaptive Data Structures. Masters Theses, London University
- John J. Scott (1978). High Level Machines and the INTELL Programming System. Ph.D. Thesis, London University
External Links
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project - John Scott
- Chess programs: Scott from Alex Bell (1972). Games Playing with Computers. Allen & Unwin, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
References
- ↑ John J. Scott (1969). Lancaster vs. Mac Hack. SIGART, Vol. 16
- ↑ Jack Good (1969). Analysis of the machine chess game, J. Scott (White), ICL-1900 versus R.D. Greenblatt, PDP-10. Machine Intelligence Vol. 4
- ↑ Chess programs: Scott from Alex Bell (1972). Games Playing with Computers. Allen & Unwin, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
- ↑ Alex Bell (1978). MASTER at IFIPS. from Atlas Computer Laboratory, hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), excerpt from Alex Bell (1978). The Machine Plays Chess. Pergamon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227, from amazon
- ↑ Games Playing with Computers - References
- ↑ Alan Bond. Curriculum Vitae