Denis Dancanet

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Denis Razuan Dancanet, an American, Romanian born private pilot, mathematician, Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University on Intensional Semantics in the context of programming languages and parallel computing. He is CEO of Jetoptera, a company developing propulsion systems for unmanned and manned aircraft, located in Edmonds, Washington, before affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. in the UK. According to his 1999 homepage, chess is one of his latest obsessions.

=Tumult= Along with Lucien N. Dancanet, Denis Dancanet developed the chess playing program Tumult for an 6502 Apple II computer, which participated at the WMCCC 1985 in Amsterdam with a good result of 3½ out of 7 and 3rd place in the Amateurs tournament. He defected from Romania to the US in September 1985.

=Selected Publications=
 * Denis Dancanet (1989). A Linda-C implementation of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator. Supercomputing World Conference
 * Stephen Brookes, Denis Dancanet (1995). Sequential algorithms, deterministic parallelism, and intensional expressiveness. ACM Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages, ps
 * Denis Dancanet (1996). Berry and Curien's Intensional Legacy, invited talk at the DIMACS Workshop on Computational Complexity and Programming Languages, July 1996, ps
 * Denis Dancanet (1998). Intensional Investigations. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor Stephen Brookes, CMU-CS-98-135, pdf

=External Links=
 * Denis Dancanet's Home Page
 * Denis Dancanet's Chess Page
 * D. Dancanet's ICGA Tournaments
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Denis Dancanet

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