Stephen F. Wheeler

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Stephen F. Wheeler, an American computer scientist and senior professor of information systems at the graduate level at DeVry University Irving, Texas campus, with expertise in artificial intelligence and computer games. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in CS and mathematics, as well as a Master's degree in computer science and AI from Texas A&M University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in AI from Walden University in 1992. As part of his M.Sc. research, he developed the chess playing program HAL (Heuristic Associative Linear-algorithm), written in Turbo Pascal. Stephen Wheeler was actor in Andrew Bujalski's 2013 feature film Computer Chess.

=Selected Publications=
 * Stephen F. Wheeler (1985).  A performance benchmark of the alpha-beta procedure on randomly ordered non-uniform depth-first game-trees generated by a chess program. M.Sc. thesis, East Texas State University
 * Abstract : A search of technical literature was performed to determine the research done to date with regard to the Alpha-Beta algorithm, and to ascertain the results obtained. Modifications were made to the author's chess program to report Alpha-Beta pruning statistics to be used for an empirical evalution of the algorithm's performance as compared to the unaided Minimax tree search algorithm.

=Postings=
 * HAL9000 Levels of Play by Stephen F. Wheeler, Chess.com, May 22, 2010
 * HAL9000 Chess Rating? by Stephen F. Wheeler, Chess.com, May 28, 2010

=External Links=
 * Dr. Stephen Wheeler, Ph.D. | LinkedIn
 * Stephen Wheeler (sfwheeler) - Chess Profile, Chess.com
 * Stephen Wheeler - IMDb

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