Lawrence J. Krakauer

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Lawrence J. Krakauer [1] Lawrence Jay (Larry) Krakauer,

an American retired electrical engineer and computer scientist with a Ph.D. in the field of Artificial Intelligence from MIT in 1970 under thesis advisor Marvin Minsky [2], and former vice president of research and development at Kronos Incorporated [3]. During the late 60s at MIT, Krakauer contributed to the Greenblatt Chess Program aka Mac Hack VI, in developing a 2D Graphics Board for the DEC 340 display used for the main system console of the PDP-6. This constitutes likely for the first GUI of a chess program in 1968. In addition, he was an amateur radio operator at the time, and brought his radio rig ( transmitter and receiver) in to the MIT labratory, which allowed Mac Hack VI to play a match against Charly [4], a chess program developed at the ETH Zurich by Gerald Tripard, Gerhard Rudolf and Werner Joho [5]. Krakauer maintaines a blog with interesting stories about chess, Mac Hack IV, the PDP-6, MIT and more [6].

Publications#

• Lawrence J. Krakauer (1971). Computer Analysis of Visual Properties of Curved Objects. Project MAC, MIT, pdf [9]

External Links#

• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Lawrence Krakauer
• Home page: Lawrence J. Krakauer

Biography of Lawrence J. Krakauer Who am I?

Chess#

• Mac Hack VI competes by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Chess stories by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Chess and nim by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• I resign by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Computer chess via ham radio by Lawrence J. Krakauer » Mac Hack vs. Charly

PDP-6#

• Moby Memory by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Bits by Lawrence J. Krakauer

Misc#

• Larry’s memoirs and musings
• The poison apple by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Hackers by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Eleven by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Gadgets by Lawrence J. Krakauer
• Poison ivy by Lawrence J. Krakauer [10]
• The Kronos “Fibonacci Code” by Lawrence J. Krakauer

References#

1. ↑ Home page: Lawrence J. Krakauer
2. ↑ Biography of Lawrence J. Krakauer
3. ↑ Coming to Kronos by Lawrence J. Krakauer
4. ↑ Computer chess via ham radio by Lawrence J. Krakauer
5. ↑ July 1, 2010 letter from Dr. Gerald Tripard, hosted by Lawrence J. Krakauer
6. ↑ Larry’s memoirs and musings
7. ↑ I resign by Lawrence J. Krakauer
8. ↑ Chess stories by Lawrence J. Krakauer
9. ↑ This report reproduces a thesis of the same title submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10. ↑ Toxicodendron radicans from Wikipedia

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