Werner Joho
Werner Joho,
a Swiss physicist affiliated with the Division Large Research Facilities [2] of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen,
Switzerland, before 1988 the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Physic (SIN) [3].
He received a Ph.D. in 1970 from ETH Zurich on the extraction of a 590 MeV proton beam from the SIN ring cyclotron [4],
and was involved in developing of the Swiss Light Source [5].
Contents
Charly
In 1967/68, as Ph.D. student at ETH, along with Gerald Tripard and Gerhard Rudolf, Werner Joho was co-developer of the chess program Charly ("Chess heuristics and algorithms for relaxing lazy yodelers") running on a CDC 1604. While the computer was basically used for calculations to design magnets for the cyclotron, they used some extra weekend computer time for their work on chess [6]. In 1968, they asked Richard Greenblatt for a match versus Mac Hack VI. Three games were played in October and November 1968 via ham radio, all won by Mac Hack VI [7] [8].
Selected Publications
1970 ...
- Werner Joho (1970). Extraction of a 590 MeV Proton Beam from the SIN Ringcyclotron. Ph.D. thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, abstract as pdf
- Werner Joho (1984). Introduction to computing for accelerator operation. Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 215, Springer
2000 ...
- Werner Joho (2003, 2011). Fun with Formulas. Paul Scherrer Institute
- Werner Joho, Marc Munoz, Andreas Streun (2006). The SLS booster synchrotron. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
2010 ...
- Werner Joho (2011). The Cyclotron Facilities at PSI, an overview. Paul Scherrer Institute
- Werner Joho (2015). Zaubereien mit Zahlen. GFA-Party 2015 (German)
- Werner Joho (2018). Winning Bets with Math. Books on Demand
- Werner Joho (2019). The Accelerator Facilities at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. Books on Demand
External Links
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Werner Joho
- Superbends expand the scope of Berkeley's ALS - CERN Courier, February 25, 2002
- Computer chess via ham radio by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- July 1, 2010 letter from Dr. Gerald Tripard, hosted by Lawrence J. Krakauer
References
- ↑ The Accelerator Facilities at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI - Author
- ↑ Large Research Facilities | GFA | Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
- ↑ More from Dr. Tim Yoho's "Yoho Page", as a Yoho foundation to Billy Lee Yoho's family
- ↑ Werner Joho (1970). Extraction of a 590 MeV Proton Beam from the SIN Ringcyclotron. Ph.D. thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, abstract as pdf
- ↑ Werner Joho, Marc Munoz, Andreas Streun (2006). The SLS booster synchrotron. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- ↑ Computer chess via ham radio by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ The first inter-computer chess game via ham radio, hosted by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ Games 2 and 3, hosted by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ Werner Joho | PHD in Natural Sciences | Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen | PSI | Department Large Research Facilities (GFA)