Alexander Brudno

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Alexander L'vovich Brudno, (Александр Львович Брудно, January 10, 1918 – December 1, 2009) was a Russian Jewish mathematician, computer scientist and computer chess pioneer. He received his Ph.D. on Real functions at Moscow State University under advisor Dmitrii Menshov. Brudno independently discovered the alpha-beta algorithm, published 1963 in Problemy Kibernetiki. The algorithm was implemented inside the ITEP Chess Program, which was written by Georgy Adelson-Velsky and others at Alexander Kronrod's laboratory at Moscow’s Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEF or ITEP).

Brudno, also at ITEP at that time was a personal and like­minded friend of Kronrod. According to Monroe Newborn, Alexander Brudno led the team that created the chess program Kaissa at Moscow’s Institute of Control Sciences. From 1991 until his death he lived in Israel.

=Quotes=

Mikhail Donskoy
=See also=
 * History of Computer Chess
 * History of Alpha-Beta

=Selected Publications=
 * Alexander Brudno (1963). Bounds and valuations for shortening the search of estimates. Problemy Kibernetiki (10) 141–150 and Problems of Cybernetics (10) 225–241
 * Alexander Brudno (1968). Programming in meaningful notation. Second edition, revised (Программирование в содержательных обозначениях)
 * Alexander Brudno, L.I. Kaplan (1990). Moscow Programming Contest. (Московские олимпиады по программированию) Popular scientific publication

=External Links=
 * Alexander Brudno from Wikipedia
 * Брудно, Александр Львович - Материал из Википедии (Russian)


 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Aleksandr Brudno
 * Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess (pdf) by Michael Brudno (May 2000)
 * Brudno Family

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