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Mark Watson, an American computer scientist, programmer, consultant and author of books on Artificial Intelligence, Java, Ruby, Common LISP, Semantic Web, NLP, C++, Linux, Scheme, and Windows.

=Go and Chess= Mark Watson is an avid Chess and Go player, and wrote the first commercial Go playing program, Honninbo Warrior for the Apple II in the late 1970s. He also wrote the free Basic chess program, Apple distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape. Mark Watson Chess participated at the Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament in March 1978 in the class C section. His artificial intelligence programming with Java textbook, accompanied with an associated GitHub source code repository , comes with a Java chess program skeleton and much more AI-topics under the Apache 2.0 License or under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.

=Selected Publications=
 * Mark Watson (1994). C++ Power Paradigms. McGraw-Hill, from amazon » C++, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks
 * Mark Watson (2009). Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing. APress 2009
 * Mark Watson (2010). Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition.
 * Mark Watson (2011). Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Common Lisp Edition.
 * Mark Watson (2013). Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java. Fourth Edition
 * Mark Watson (2017). Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon. Fourth Edition

=External Links=
 * Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author
 * Mark Watson - Google+
 * Mark Watson · GitHub
 * Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub


 * Mark Watson's Blog, March 27, 2003
 * why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog, September 9, 2010
 * The chess games of Mark Watson from chessgames.com

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