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[ Cover of the September 1848 issue [1] Scientific American,

a popular science magazine, founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four page weekly newspaper. Since 2009, Mariette DiChristina is the eighth editor-in-chief. Martin Gardner was author of the Mathematical Games column from 1956 to 1981 [2] [3]. Occasionally, Scientific American had notable articles on AI and computer chess topics.

Selected Articles#

1915#

• Anonymmous (1915). Torre and His Remarkable Automatic Devices. Scientific American, Supplement 80, Number 2079, November 06, 1915 » El Ajedrecista

1950 …#

• Claude Shannon (1950). A Chess-Playing Machine. Scientific American, Vol. 182 (No. 2, February 1950), pp. 48-51. Reprinted in The World of Mathematics, edited by James R. Newman, Simon & Schuster, NY, Vol. 4, 1956, pp. 2124-2133. Included in Part B
• Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts (1958). Computer vs. Chess-Player. Scientific American, Vol. 198, pp. 96-105. pdf from The Computer History Museum, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium » The Bernstein Chess Program

1960 …#

• Christopher Strachey (1966). System Analysis and Programming. Scientific American, September 1966, republished August 23, 2011 [4] [5]

1970 …#

• Martin Gardner (1970). Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game “life”. Scientific American, Vol. 223, pp. 120-123. » John H. Conway
• Martin Gardner (1973). Mathematical Games: How to Turn a Chessboard into a Computer to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 4 [6]
• Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). An Advice-Taking Chess Computer. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 6
• Martin Gardner (1979). Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen. Scientific American, Vol. 270

1980 …#

• Hans Berliner (1980). Computer Backgammon. Scientific American, Vol. 242, No. 6, hosted by Backgammon Galore
• Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (1986). The King (A Chess Program) Is Dead, Long Live The King (A Chess Machine). Scientific American, 1986-02, pdf from The Computer History Museum » ACM 1985

1990 …#

• Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). A Grandmaster Chess Machine. Scientific American, Vol. 263, No. 4, Online Reprint [7] » Deep Thought

2000 …#

• Scott Aaronson (2008). The Limits of Quantum Computers. Scientific American, March 01, 2008, draft as pdf
• Simon Portegies Zwart (2008). The Long-Lost Siblings of the Sun. Scientific American, Vol. 301, No. 5

2010 …#

• Larry Greenemeier (2011). Robots Arrive at Fukushima Nuclear Site with Unclear Mission. Scientific American, March 24, 2011 [8] » Robots
• Simon Portegies Zwart (2014). A New Space Mission Could Track Down the Sun’s Lost Siblings. Scientific American, Special Editions Vol. 23, No. 3s

Online#

• 20 Years after Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess by Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, June 2, 2017 [9] » Artificial Intelligence, Deep Blue, Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997, Murray Campbell

External Links#

• Scientific American from Wikipedia
• Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American
• Scientific American: Scientific American Magazine
• Mind & Brain Science News, Articles, and Information from Scientific American
• Scientific American: News
• Chess for All Ages: Scientific American’s Chess Puzzles by Mark Weeks, December 29, 2009
• Chess for All Ages: Scientific American’s Computer Chess by Mark Weeks, January 12, 2010

References#

1. ↑ Scientific American from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Martin Gardner from Wikipedia
3. ↑ Index to Mathematical Games
4. ↑ Complete Annotated Strachey Checkers Program by Peter Norvig
5. ↑ Prescient but Not Perfect: A Look Back at a 1966 Scientific American Article on Systems Analysis by Peter Norvig, Scientific American Online, August 23, 2011
6. ↑ Negative base from Wikipedia
7. ↑ Feng’s (Deep Thought) article in Scientific American (long) by Feng-hsiung Hsu, rgc, October 19, 1990
8. ↑ Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster from Wikipedia
9. ↑ Scientific American article on Computer Chess by Mark Lefler, CCC, June 03, 2017

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