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James John (Jim) Gillogly, an American computer scientist and cryptographer from RAND Corporation. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978, receiving a Ph.D. in computer science. His thesis Performance Analysis of the Technology Program was advised by Allen Newell.

=Tech= James Gillogly was the primary author of the The Technology Chess Program, which was the predecessor of all modern chess programs, using a Shannon Type A Strategy. In 1970, Tech was written in BLISS, a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon, and in 1977 ported to C. Gillogly further authored the Fortran chess player dubbed MAX, and along with Samuel Fuller and John Gaschnig, analyzed the alpha-beta algorithm.

=Selected Publications=
 * James Gillogly (1970). MAX : A FORTRAN Chess Player. RAND paper
 * James Gillogly (1971). The Technology Chess Program. Carnegie Mellon University, CS-71-109, pdf
 * James Gillogly (1972). The Technology Chess Program. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3, pp. 145-163, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Samuel Fuller, John Gaschnig, James Gillogly (1973). An Analysis of the Alpha-Beta Pruning Algorithm. Technical Report, Carnegie Mellon University, pdf
 * James Gillogly (1978). Performance Analysis of the Technology Chess Program. Ph.D. Thesis. Tech. Report CMU-CS-78-189, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-77 pdf
 * James Gillogly (1989). Transposition Table Collisions. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search
 * James Gillogly (1989). New Directions in Game-Tree Search - First Workshop Session. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 » Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search

=Forum Posts=
 * Computer Chess Hall of Fame - Revised Edition, rgcc, post 10 and 23 by Jim Gillogly, April 14, 1997

=External Links=
 * James Gillogly from Wikipedia
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - James Gillogly
 * The AI Genealogy Project :: James Gillogly
 * James Gillogly's ICGA Tournaments
 * Crack the Ciphers - Decoding Nazi Secrets by Jim Gillogly, Nova

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