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Ben Mittman

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'''Benjamin (Ben) Mittman''', (1928 - September 27, 2018)<br/>
was an American photographer, computer scientist, retired professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at [[Northwestern University]], and former director of ''Northwestern's Vogelback Computing Center'' <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Northwestern_University History of Northwestern University from Wikipedia]</ref> . In 1970 Ben Mittman and [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] initiated, constituted and organized the [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]], and together with [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]] and [[David Levy]], the [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in 1974. Mittman was co-founder of the [[ICCA]] in 1977 and served as its first president, as well as editor of the [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Newsletter]] until 1983 <ref>[[WCCC 1983|The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship]] New York, New York October 22-25, 1983 A Special Event at ACM-83. ''The ICCA'' pp 19. available as [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1983_WCCC/1983-%20WCCC.062303061.sm.pdf pdf reprint] from [[The Computer History Museum]] (via the wrong labeled site [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6c8af8 The 22nd ACM International Computer Chess Championship])</ref> .
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