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Home * People * William Tunstall-Pedoe
William Tunstall-Pedoe,
a British computer scientist, AI entrepreneur, startup mentor, angel investor and founder of Evi, formerly True Knowledge, which specializes in knowledge base and semantic search engine software.
In October 2012, Evi was acquired by Amazon [2], its technology and team became a key part of Amazon Alexa [3] [4].
Computer Chess
William Tunstall-Pedoe graduated from University of Cambridge in 1991 - he wrote a CST Part II Dissertation describing ACPP, his advanced chess playing program, which was research vehicle in genetic algorithms and automated tuning of evaluation weights and search parameters, as elaborated in his ICCA Journal paper [5]. In 1992/93 he developed a complete commercial chess-playing program from scratch including a high quality chess engine, animated graphics, sound effects and a full state-of-the-art user interface. The product was marketed as Cyber Chess and published by The Fourth Dimension [6].
AI Software
From 1988 Tunstall-Pedoe developed and marketed various AI related software, most notably Anagram Genius [7] and since 1996 ,Crossword Maestro [8] , a software which solves cryptic crossword clues and explains in plain English how the clues work.
Publications
- William Tunstall-Pedoe (1991). An Advanced Chess-Playing Program. CST Part II Dissertation, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, England (unpublished, referred in Genetic Algorithms ...)
- William Tunstall-Pedoe (1991). Genetic Algorithms Optimizing Evaluation Functions. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3
- William Tunstall-Pedoe, Donald L. Holmes (1995). Anagram Genius: An Incredible Collection of Weird, Wonderful and Wacky Anagrams. New English Library Ltd., Amazon.co.uk
- William Tunstall-Pedoe (2010). True Knowledge: Open-Domain Question Answering Using Structured Knowledge and Inference. AI Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 3
External Links
- Personal site of William Tunstall-Pedoe
- blog – William Tunstall-Pedoe
- William Tunstall-Pedoe | LinkedIn
- William Tunstall-Pedoe (@williamtp) / Twitter
- William Tunstall-Pedoe | Booking Agent | Speakers Roster | MN2S
- William Tunstall-Pedoe - The Origins of Amazon Alexa, 2019, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ William Tunstall-Pedoe | LinkedIn
- ↑ Evi - an Amazon Company
- ↑ The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo
- ↑ Evi (software) from Wikipedia
- ↑ William Tunstall-Pedoe (1991). Genetic Algorithms Optimizing Evaluation Functions. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3
- ↑ William Tunstall-Pedoe Resumé (Resume, Curriculum Vitae, CV) (Wayback Machine, November 2011)
- ↑ Anagram Genius - fun anagrams and anagram software
- ↑ Home — Crossword Genius
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database