Albert Lindsey Zobrist

Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the Zobrist Hashing.[1] He also authored the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.[2][3]

Education

Albert Zobrist received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and a Masters in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970.[4]

Computer chess

While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched computer chess. With Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme, he co-authored the chess programs USC CP and Tyro,[5] which participated at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.[6]

References

  1. ^ Albert Zobrist (1970), A New Hashing Method with Application for Game Playing. Technical Report #88, Computer Science Department, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Reprinted (1990) in ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
  2. ^ Zobrist, Albert Lindsey (1970). Feature Extraction and Representation for Pattern Recognition and the Game of Go (Ph.D. thesis). University of Wisconsin. Also published as a technical report
  3. ^ Cai, Xindi; Wunsch II, Donald C. (2007). "Computer Go: A Grand Challenge to AI". In Duch, Włodzisław; Mańdziuk, Jacek (eds.). Challenges for Computational Intelligence. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  4. ^ "MIT Class of 1964 | MIT Alumni Association". Retrieved 2026-01-01.
  5. ^ Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  6. ^ A Memorial to BRUTE FORCE by Louis Kessler
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