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Tim Niblett [1] Timothy B. (Tim) Niblett,

a British computer scientist, AI researcher and entrepreneur in the field of Expert systems. Tim Niblett defended his Ph.D. with the thesis Validation of Machine-Oriented Strategies in Chess Endgames at University of Edinburgh in 1982 under Donald Michie [2], and co-founded the Turing Institute along with Michie et al..

Chess Endgames#

Quote by Maarten van Emden in I remember Donald Michie [5]:

In 1980 I spent another summer in Edinburgh as a guest of Donald Michie. Since the low point of 1975, thanks to assiduous and inventive joint pursuit of funding possibilities by Donald and [Jean](Jean_Hayes_Michie "Jean Hayes Michie"), the Machine Intelligence Research Unit was alive with work focused on [chess endgames](Endgame "Endgame"). There were students, including Tim Niblett and [Alen Shapiro](Alen_Shapiro "Alen Shapiro"). [Danny Kopec](Danny_Kopec "Danny Kopec") was there, perhaps formally as a student, but de facto as the resident chess consultant. [Ivan Bratko](Ivan_Bratko "Ivan Bratko") visited frequently. Alen was the administrator of the dream computing environment of that time: a small [PDP-11](PDP-11 "PDP-11") running [Unix](Unix "Unix"). 

Selected Publications#

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• Ivan Bratko, Tim Niblett (1979). Conjectures and Refutations in a Framework for Chess Endgames. in Donald Michie (ed.) (1979). Expert Systems in the Micro-Electronic Age. Edinburgh University Press
• Danny Kopec, Tim Niblett (1980). How Hard is the Play of the King-Rook-King-Knight Ending? Advances in Computer Chess 2
• Alen Shapiro, Tim Niblett (1982). Automatic Induction of Classification Rules for Chess End game. Advances in Computer Chess 3
• Tim Niblett (1982). Validation of Machine-Oriented Strategies in Chess Endgames. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh
• Tim Niblett, Ivan Bratko (1987). Learning decision rules in noisy domains. in Max Bramer (ed.) (1987). Research and Development in Expert Systems III. Cambridge University Press

External Links#

• Tim Niblett (@tim_niblett) | Twitter

References#

1. ↑ Tim Niblett (@tim_niblett) | Twitter
2. ↑ Tim Niblett (1982). Validation of Machine-Oriented Strategies in Chess Endgames. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh
3. ↑ Ross Quinlan (1986). Induction of Decision Trees. Machine Learning, Vol. 1, No. 1
4. ↑ D. Michie CV
5. ↑ I remember Donald Michie (1923 – 2007) « A Programmers Place by Maarten van Emden, June 12, 2009
6. ↑ ICGA Reference Database

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