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Larry R. Harris, an American computer scientist and retired commercial AI entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Cornell University.

=Computer Chess= During the 70s, as professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, Larry Harris researched and published on heuristic best-first search based on A* and introduced the Bandwidth Search. He lead the team developing Dartmouth CP and Dart, competing at the ACM 1973 and ACM 1974 respectively.

=AI Entrepreneur= Larry Harris further research interests were related to natural language query systems, and he founded Artificial Intelligence Corporation, later renamed AICorp, which went public in 1990. In 1994 he founded the EasyAsk Linguistic Technology Corporation, and developed its EasyAsk and English Wizard E-commerce products.

=Selected Publications=
 * Larry Harris (1973). The bandwidth heuristic search. 3. IJCAI 1973, pdf
 * Larry Harris (1974). Heuristic Search under Conditions of Error. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 3, also as (1977). The heuristic search: An alternative to the alpha-beta minimax procedure. Chess Skill in Man and Machine
 * Larry Harris (1975). The Heuristic Search And The Game Of Chess - A Study Of Quiescence, Sacrifices, And Plan Oriented Play. 4. IJCAI 1975, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Larry Harris (1977). The heuristic search: An alternative to the alpha-beta minimax procedure. Chess Skill in Man and Machine

=External Links=
 * Larry Harris | LinkedIn
 * Dr. Larry Harris of Progress EasyAsk speaks with Shop.org TV, 2007, YouTube Video

=References=

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