Charles Niessen

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Charles W. (Chuck) Niessen, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and retired researcher and associate head, Communications and Information Technology Division at Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the early 60s, already at MIT, Charles Niessen was member of the "the chess group" supervised by John McCarthy, along with Alan Kotok, Elwyn Berlekamp (1960), Michael Lieberman and Robert A. Wagner. They wrote the chess program for the IBM 7090, which later evolved to the Kotok-McCarthy-Chess Program.

=Selected Publications=
 * Charles W. Niessen (1967). Automatic channel equalization algorithm.  Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 55, No. 5
 * Charles W. Niessen, Donald K. Willim (1970). Adaptive Equalizer for Pulse Transmission. IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology, Vol. 18, No. 4
 * Michael M. Burrows, Charles W. Niessen (1972). ELF communication system design. IEEE Ocean 72

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