Kerwin Medina

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Kerwin Medina, WCCC 2010 [1] Kerwin F. Medina,

an American computer scientist, computer chess programmer, and principal software engineer at Microsoft [2]. In 1996, he contributed the LZHLIB [3] a small C library to compress and uncompress using the LZH algorithm, which is a direct derivative of the source code of Haruhiko Okumura’s ar-archiver [4]. In 2009, Kerwin Medina assumed the development of Thinker by Lance Perkins [5] [6] , and is mentioned as lonesome author of Thinker on the ICGA tournament site [7] [8].

• New version of Thinker by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, November 03, 2008
• Interesting Scorpio design by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, November 05, 2008 » Iterative Search, Scorpio
• Thinking in parallel by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, March 06, 2009
• Save 3 characters off MicroMax by Kerwin Medina, Winboard Forum, July 15, 2011 » Micro-Max

External Links#

• Kerwin Medina | LinkedIn
• Kerwin Medina’s ICGA Tournaments

References#

1. ↑ Foto-impressie WCCC/WCSC Kanazawa, Japan by Jan Krabbenbos from the CSVN site
2. ↑ Kerwin Medina | LinkedIn
3. ↑ LZH.H … Kerwin F. Medina (1996)
4. ↑ History of Data Compression in Japan
5. ↑ Re: Thinker output by Lance Perkins, CCC, March 23, 2009
6. ↑ Re: Best tactical engine? by Lance Perkins, CCC, April 25, 2009
7. ↑ Thinker’s ICGA Tournaments
8. ↑ Complaints against the Chess programs LOOP and THINKER by Harvey Williamson, CCC, May 14, 2014

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