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[[FILE:Elwyn R Berlekamp 2005.jpg|border|right|thumb|Elwyn Berlekamp <ref>Elwyn Berlekamp at [https://math.berkeley.edu/~berlek/cgt/index.html Conference on Combinatorial Game Theory] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_International_Research_Station Banff International Research Station], June 19, 2005, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Berlekamp Elwyn Berlekamp from Wikipedia]</ref>]]
'''Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp''', (born September 6, 1940- April 9, 2019)<br/>was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and professor emeritus of Mathematics at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He finished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in 1964, where his thesis advisors were [[Mathematician#RGGallager|Robert G. Gallager]], [[Mathematician#PElias|Peter Elias]], [[Claude Shannon]] and [[Mathematician#JWozencraft|John Wozencraft]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Berlekamp Elwyn Berlekamp from Wikipedia]</ref>. While undergraduate at MIT, Berlekamp was member of the chess group and worked on Chess Playing routines for the [[IBM 704]] Computer, also joined by [[Alan Kotok]] and others to build the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]] for the [[IBM 7090]]. Berlekamp dropped out of this project in 1960 and focused on [[Bridge]], [[Go]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory combinatorial game theory] <ref>[http://math.berkeley.edu/%7Eberlek/pubs/gamrep.html Games: Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports]</ref>.
=Winning Ways=
=Quotes=
from [[Alan Kotok|Alan Kotok's]] Oral History <ref>[httphttps://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=&submitted=1&keywords=Kotok&x=25&y=5&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software orl-433443a97a073/ Oral History of Alan Kotok] from [[The Computer History Museum]], see Oral HistoryNovember 15, 2004</ref>:
So there were a total of five people. There was the initial four were, besides me, [[Charles Niessen]], Chuck Niessen, whose these days is some sort of director over at Lincoln Lab. And [[Michael A. Lieberman|Mike Lieberman]], who is on the faculty at Berkeley. And [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], who is also Berkeley faculty, and fairly famous computer game theory person. Elwyn dropped out of this project at some point, and Bob Wagner, another so these were all sort of East Campus Model Railroad Club friends - and [[Robert A. Wagner|Bob Wagner]] is at, I think, University of North Carolina - what’s in Raleigh-Durham?
=External Links=
* [httphttps://math.berkeley.edu/%7Eberlek~berlek/ Elwyn Berlekamp's Home Page]* [httphttps://wwwwww2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/berlekamp.html Elwyn R. Berlekamp | EECS at UC Berkeley]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Berlekamp Elwyn Berlekamp from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=16958 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Elwyn Berlekamp]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%27s_algorithm Berlekamp's algorithm from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%E2%80%93Massey_algorithm Berlekamp–Massey algorithm from Wikipedia]
