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'''Michael T. (Mike) Alexander''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Independent Computer Software Professional and former computer chess programmer. While affiliated with the Computing Center of the [[University of Michigan]], Mike Alexander was principal architect of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System Michigan Terminal System] <ref>[http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/ Michigan Terminal System Archive]</ref> <ref>[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html Michigan Terminal System]</ref> and co-author of the chess program [[CHAOS]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=42 Chaos' ICGA Tournaments]</ref>, along with [[Fred Swartz]], [[Victor Berman]], [[Ira Ruben]], [[William Toikka]], [[Joe Winograd]] and later [[Mark Hersey]] and [[Jack O’Keefe]] <ref>pp. 52, Table I. History of the [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM Tournaments]] from
[[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''Computer chess at [[ACM 1979|ACM 79]]: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 23, Issue 1, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79.062303018.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. CHAOS was one of the strongest programs of the 70s and early 80s, using an unique, knowledge based and selective [[Best-First|best-first]], iterative widening approach, keeping the [[Search Tree|search tree]] in memory <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cdeeb The Eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship] as [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1980_11th_ACM_NACCC/The_Eleventh_ACMs_North_American_Computer_Chess_Championship.1980.062303015.sm.pdf pdf reprint] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:IBM360-67AtUmichWithMikeAlexander.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px]]
Mike Alexander at the console of the [[IBM 360|IBM S/360 Model 67]] ca 1969 <ref>Computing Center staff member Mike Alexander sitting at the console of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_67 IBM S/360 Model 67] Duplex mainframe computer at the North University Building on the main campus of the [[University of Michigan]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan], sometime between 1968 and 1971, by Dave Mills, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System Michigan Terminal System from Wikipedia], source [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html Michigan Terminal System]</ref>
=See also=
* [[David Levy#ScotchVersusVodka|Scotch versus Vodka]] - one of [[David Levy|David Levy's]] bets
=Selected Publications=
<ref> [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Michael-T.-Alexander-Mike-MTA.- People - Michigan Terminal System Archive - Michael T. Alexander]</ref>
* [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1969'''). ''Time-Sharing Supervisor Programs''. In Advanced Topics in Systems Programming, University of Michigan Engineering Summer Conference 7016, 1970, [https://1a9f2076-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/michiganterminalsystem/documentation/documents/timeSharingSupervisorPrograms-1971.pdf pdf]
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Donald-W.-Boettner-Don-DWB.- Donald W. Boettner], [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1232909.1232910 MTS - Michigan Terminal System]''. [[ACM#SIGOPS|ACM SIGOPS]] [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J597 Operating Systems Review], Vol. 4, No. 4
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Allen-R.-Emery-Al- Allan R. Emery], [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1975'''). ''A Performance Comparison of the Amdahl 470V/6 and the IBM 370/168''. Computer Measurement Group, October 1975, San Francisco, California, [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4t_NX-QeWDYaVpEZzNVTDRRdUdFaUJ5UjV5Q0xJQQ/edit?pli=1 pdf] » [[AMDAHL 470]], [[IBM 370]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=409 Mike Alexander's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-alexander/11/57B/A75 Michael Alexander - LinkedIn]
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Michael-T.-Alexander-Mike-MTA.- People - Michigan Terminal System Archive - Michael T. Alexander]
* [https://picasaweb.google.com/103267580193222253134/UMPeople?noredirect=1# UM People - Jeff Ogden - Picasa Web Albums]
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19791127&id=QfwPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6410,4650912 Computer vs. computer: Duel on the Chessboard, Boca Raton News - November 27. 1979] from [http://news.google.com/nwshp Google News] on [[ACM 1979]]
=References=
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[[FILE:MikeAlexander.jpg|border|right|thumb|220px|link=http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people| Mike Alexander <ref>[http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Michael-T.-Alexander-Mike-MTA.- People - Michigan Terminal System Archive - Michael T. Alexander]</ref> ]]
'''Michael T. (Mike) Alexander''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Independent Computer Software Professional and former computer chess programmer. While affiliated with the Computing Center of the [[University of Michigan]], Mike Alexander was principal architect of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System Michigan Terminal System] <ref>[http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/ Michigan Terminal System Archive]</ref> <ref>[http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html Michigan Terminal System]</ref> and co-author of the chess program [[CHAOS]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=42 Chaos' ICGA Tournaments]</ref>, along with [[Fred Swartz]], [[Victor Berman]], [[Ira Ruben]], [[William Toikka]], [[Joe Winograd]] and later [[Mark Hersey]] and [[Jack O’Keefe]] <ref>pp. 52, Table I. History of the [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM Tournaments]] from
[[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]] ('''1980'''). ''Computer chess at [[ACM 1979|ACM 79]]: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 23, Issue 1, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.Computer_chess_at_ACM_79.062303018.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. CHAOS was one of the strongest programs of the 70s and early 80s, using an unique, knowledge based and selective [[Best-First|best-first]], iterative widening approach, keeping the [[Search Tree|search tree]] in memory <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cdeeb The Eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship] as [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1980_11th_ACM_NACCC/The_Eleventh_ACMs_North_American_Computer_Chess_Championship.1980.062303015.sm.pdf pdf reprint] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>.
=Photos=
[[FILE:IBM360-67AtUmichWithMikeAlexander.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px]]
Mike Alexander at the console of the [[IBM 360|IBM S/360 Model 67]] ca 1969 <ref>Computing Center staff member Mike Alexander sitting at the console of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_67 IBM S/360 Model 67] Duplex mainframe computer at the North University Building on the main campus of the [[University of Michigan]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan], sometime between 1968 and 1971, by Dave Mills, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System Michigan Terminal System from Wikipedia], source [http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html Michigan Terminal System]</ref>
=See also=
* [[David Levy#ScotchVersusVodka|Scotch versus Vodka]] - one of [[David Levy|David Levy's]] bets
=Selected Publications=
<ref> [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Michael-T.-Alexander-Mike-MTA.- People - Michigan Terminal System Archive - Michael T. Alexander]</ref>
* [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1969'''). ''Time-Sharing Supervisor Programs''. In Advanced Topics in Systems Programming, University of Michigan Engineering Summer Conference 7016, 1970, [https://1a9f2076-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/michiganterminalsystem/documentation/documents/timeSharingSupervisorPrograms-1971.pdf pdf]
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Donald-W.-Boettner-Don-DWB.- Donald W. Boettner], [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1232909.1232910 MTS - Michigan Terminal System]''. [[ACM#SIGOPS|ACM SIGOPS]] [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J597 Operating Systems Review], Vol. 4, No. 4
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Allen-R.-Emery-Al- Allan R. Emery], [[Mike Alexander|Michael T. Alexander]] ('''1975'''). ''A Performance Comparison of the Amdahl 470V/6 and the IBM 370/168''. Computer Measurement Group, October 1975, San Francisco, California, [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4t_NX-QeWDYaVpEZzNVTDRRdUdFaUJ5UjV5Q0xJQQ/edit?pli=1 pdf] » [[AMDAHL 470]], [[IBM 370]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=409 Mike Alexander's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-alexander/11/57B/A75 Michael Alexander - LinkedIn]
* [http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/people#TOC-Michael-T.-Alexander-Mike-MTA.- People - Michigan Terminal System Archive - Michael T. Alexander]
* [https://picasaweb.google.com/103267580193222253134/UMPeople?noredirect=1# UM People - Jeff Ogden - Picasa Web Albums]
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19791127&id=QfwPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6410,4650912 Computer vs. computer: Duel on the Chessboard, Boca Raton News - November 27. 1979] from [http://news.google.com/nwshp Google News] on [[ACM 1979]]
=References=
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