Kenneth L. King

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Kenneth L. King,

an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Since the late 50s, Kenneth L. King was involved in the development of graphical CRT computer displays and later computer-aided design (CAD) platforms. He was long time fellow of computer graphics pioneer Carl Machover [1] [2], as they were co-founders of RMS Associates in 1960, ‘64 renamed to Information Displays, Inc. (IDI) [3] [4].

IDI’s stand-alone CAD platform IDIIOM (IDI Input-Output Machine) included a furnished Varian 620/i minicomputer [5] [6]. IDIIOM ran a chess program developed by Kenneth L. King in collaboration with NASA engineer Chris Daly within its own prototype of a Graphical User Interface. The program, later dubbed Daly CP, won second place in the First United States Computer Chess Championship 1970 in New York City [7] [8].

IDIIOM playing chess [9]

References#

1. ↑ Carl Machover, father of composer and innovator Tod Machover
2. ↑ Carl Machover, Computer Graphics Pioneer, Dies at 84, White Plains, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2012
3. ↑ An Interview with Carl Machover (pdf) by Philip Frana, June 20, 2002
4. ↑ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION - NEWS DIGEST, June 7, 1967 (pdf) INFORMATION DISPLAYS PROPOSES OFFERING
5. ↑ The Minicomputer Orphanage
6. ↑ Varian Data Machines from The Computer History Museum
7. ↑ Special Events for Association for Computing Machinery, 25th National Conference (pdf), hosted by The Computer History Museum
8. ↑ Woodrow W. Bledsoe (1970). First U.S. computer chess tournament. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 24
9. ↑ Don Bissell (1998). Was the IDIIOM the First Stand-Alone CAD Platform? IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 20, No. 2, from DOC88.com

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