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William Tunstall-Pedoe [1] William Tunstall-Pedoe,

a British computer scientist, AI entrepreneur, startup mentor, angel investor and founder of Evi, formerly True Knowledge, which specializes in knowledge base and semantic search engine software. In October 2012, Evi was acquired by Amazon [2], its technology and team became a key part of Amazon Alexa [3] [4].

AI Software

From 1988 Tunstall-Pedoe developed and marketed various AI related software, most notably Anagram Genius [7] and since 1996 ,Crossword Maestro [8] , a software which solves cryptic crossword clues and explains in plain English how the clues work.

Publications

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William Tunstall-Pedoe (1991). An Advanced Chess-Playing Program. CST Part II Dissertation, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, England (unpublished, referred in Genetic Algorithms …)
William Tunstall-Pedoe (1991). Genetic Algorithms Optimizing Evaluation Functions. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3
William Tunstall-Pedoe, Donald L. Holmes (1995). Anagram Genius: An Incredible Collection of Weird, Wonderful and Wacky Anagrams. New English Library Ltd., Amazon.co.uk
William Tunstall-Pedoe (2010). True Knowledge: Open-Domain Question Answering Using Structured Knowledge and Inference. AI Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 3