Andreas Nowatzyk

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Andreas G. Nowatzyk, a German born, American physicist and computer scientist, Associate Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andreas Nowatzyk was member of the Deep Thought team, working on evaluation and evaluation tuning.

=Photos= Murray Campbell, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Mike Browne and Andreas Nowatzyk, after winning the Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Deep Thought's Grandmaster-level performance.

=Eval tuning in Deep Thought= Eval Tuning in Deep Thought, quote by Tim Mann : Andreas Nowatzyk was one of the contributors to the Deep Thought project while he was in grad school. A few years ago when he and I were both working for Compaq's research labs in Palo Alto, Andreas sent me a copy of Deep Thought's evaluation function tuning program and asked me to put it on the Web for him, since he no longer has an interest in computer chess.

=Selected Publications=
 * Andreas Nowatzyk (1989).  A Communication Architecture for Multiprocessor Networks. Ph.D. thesis, Technical Report, CMU-SCS-TR-89-181, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). Deep Thought. Computers, Chess, and Cognition
 * Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk (1990). A Grandmaster Chess Machine. Scientific American, Vol. 263, No. 4, Online Reprint

=External Links=
 * Andreas Nowatzyk's Homepage
 * Deep Thought from Tim Mann's Chess Pages
 * Source code to tune Deep Thought's evaluation in tar.gz format.
 * Andreas Nowatzyk's explanations of the the source code

=References=

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