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'''David Allen McAllester''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Professor and Chief Academic Officer at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Technological_Institute_at_Chicago Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago]. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1978, 1979, and 1987 respectively. His research interests covers [[Learning|machine learning]] theory, the theory of [[Languages|programming languages]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning automated reasoning], [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] [[Planning|planning]], [[Games|computer game]] playing, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics computational linguistics]. In 1988, McAllester proposed the [[Best-First|best-first search]] algorithm [[Conspiracy Number Search]], and in 1993, the [[Depth-First|depth-first]] [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]], republished in 2002 in the [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal]] <ref>[[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''[[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]]</ref> and mentioned by the [[Deep Blue]] team <ref>[[Murray Campbell]], [[Joe Hoane]], [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]] ('''1999'''). ''Search Control Methods in Deep Blue''. [[AAAI]] Technical Report SS-99-07, [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/211d/7268093b4dfce8201e8da321201c6cd349ef.pdf pdf], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160914070926/http://aaaipress.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/1999/SS-99-07/SS99-07-004.pdf pdf]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=