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'''Johann Joss''',<br/>
a Swiss mathematician and Ph.D in mathematics from the [[ETH Zurich]], in the 90s affiliated with the [http://www.iumsp.ch/ University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of Lausanne]. He already started computer chess programming in 1967 on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_1604 CDC I604 A] <ref>[http://www.computerwoche.de/a/computer-logik-im-koeniglichen-spiel,1205123 Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik] October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref>, and his chess program [[Tell]] participated at the first two [[World Computer Chess Championship|World Computer Chess Championships]], the [[WCCC 1974]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm] and the [[WCCC 1977]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto Toronto], and won the first German computer chess tournament, the [[First GI Computer Chess Tournament]], 1975 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund Dortmund] <ref>[http://www.computerwoche.de/a/tells-geschoss-schachmatt,1205122 Tells Geschoß: Schachmatt], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref> <ref>[http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1975/42/1205115/ Computerschach: Mini besiegt Maxi], October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref>.

=Tit for Tat=
Johann Joss also researched on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma Prisoner's dilemma] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat Tit for tat] and participated in [[Mathematician#RAxelrod|Robert Axelrod's]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation#Axelrod.27s_Tournaments tournaments] <ref>[[Mathematician#RAxelrod|Robert Axelrod]] ('''1984'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation The Evolution of Cooperation], [http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/Axelrod_Evol_of_Coop_excerpts.pdf pdf], pp. 32''</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stuart_Burt Ronald S. Burt] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.springerlink.com/content/ut87478ut6402647/ Private Games are too Dangerous]''. [http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/PGAD.pdf pdf]</ref> on the topic of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation evolution of cooperation].

=Selected Publications=
* [[Johann Joss]] ('''1976'''). ''Algorithmisches Differenzieren''. Ph.D thesis, [[ETH Zurich]], advisor [[Mathematician#PJHuber|Peter Jost Huber]]
* [[Mathematician#AGottlieb|Allan Gottlieb]], [[Peter W. Frey]], [[David Levy]], [[Johann Joss]] ('''1979'''). Letters on ''Handicapping Computer Chess Programs'', [[ICGA Journal#2_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1]]
* [[Mathematician#AMarazzi|Alfio Marazzi]], [[Johann Joss]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=86808.86834&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=85883188&CFTOKEN=90350276 Probabilistic algorithms for least median of squares regression]''. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol. 9, 1
* [[Mathematician#AMarazzi|Alfio Marazzi]], [[Johann Joss]], [http://www.365chess.com/players/Alex_Randriamiharisoa Alex Randriamiharisoa] ('''1993'''). ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=134866 Algorithms, routines, and S functions for robust statistics: the FORTRAN library ROBETH with an interface to S-PLUS]''. Wadsworth And Brooks/Cole Statistics/Probability Series, [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0534196985/acmorg-20 amazon]

=External Links=
* <span id="Blog"></span>[http://info.uptrend.ch/uptrend/page/display/johanns-blog?v=29 Johanns Blog]
: [http://info.uptrend.ch/uptrend/page/display/numerische-probleme-mit-reals?v=54 About Floating Point Arithmetic]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=494 Johann Joss' ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=18636 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Johann Joss]

=References=
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