Albert Zobrist

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Albert Lindsey Zobrist, an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the famous Zobrist Hashing, published in 1970. He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his Ph.D. Thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.

=Computer Chess= While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched on computer chess, and was along with Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme co-author of the chess programs USC CP and Tyro, participating at five ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, ACM 1972 and ACM 1973 with USC CP and ACM 1974, ACM 1975 and ACM 1977 with Tyro.

=Selected Publications=
 * Albert Zobrist (1969). A Model of Visual Organisation for the Game of Go. Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 34, pp. 103-112.
 * Albert Zobrist (1970). A Pattern Recognition Program which uses a Geometry-Preserving Representation of Features. Technical Report #85, pdf
 * 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, pdf
 * Albert Zobrist (1970). Feature Extraction and Representation for Pattern Recognition and the Game of Go. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin.
 * Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia
 * Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). An Advice-Taking Chess Computer. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 6, pp. 92-105.
 * Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1977). Detection of Combined Occurrences. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-35.
 * Albert Zobrist (1990). A New Hashing Method with Applications for Game Playing. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 69-73.
 * Albert Lindsey Zobrist (2009). Ordered Minimal Perfect Hash of the Human Genome and Implications for Duplicate Finding. CSIE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering - Volume 04

=External Links=
 * Albert Lindsey Zobrist from Wikipedia
 * Albert Zobrist | LinkedIn
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Albert Zobrist
 * Albert L. Zobrist at Sensei's Library

=References=

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