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[[FILE:ErnstAHeinz.jpg|border|right|thumb||  Ernst A. Heinz <ref>[[Chrilly Donninger]] ('''2000'''). ''Die Wissenschaft kehrt zurück - Computerschach-Forschung und das Buch von Ernst Heinz''. [[Computerschach und Spiele|CSS]] 2/00, [http://www.mustrum.de/chrilly/heinz.pdf pdf] (German)</ref> ]] 

'''Ernst A. Heinz''',<br/>
a German computer scientist affiliated with the [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Universit%C3%A4t_f%C3%BCr_Gesundheitswissenschaften,_Medizinische_Informatik_und_Technik UMIT], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_in_Tirol Hall in Tirol] <ref> [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Bannach:David.html David Bannach], [http://www.sps.ele.tue.nl/members/O.Amft/ Oliver Amft], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/k/Kunze:Kai.html Kai S. Kunze], [[Ernst A. Heinz]], [http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/people/gerhartr Gerhard Tröster], [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1FIyc9kAAAAJ&hl=en Paul Lukowicz] ('''2007'''). ''Waving Real Hand Gestures Recorded by Wearable Motion Sensors to a Virtual Car and Driver in a Mixed-Reality Parking Game''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cig/cig2007.html#BannachAKHTL07 CIG 2007]</ref>, and previously with the [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_University_in_Germany International University (IU) Bruchsal] <ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/unternehmen-hochschule-privatuni-in-bruchsal-ist-pleite-a-637590.html Unternehmen Hochschule: Privatuni in Bruchsal ist pleite], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_Online Spiegel Online], July 22, 2009 (German)</ref>. In 1993, Ernst A. Heinz and [[Peter Gillgasch]], two students at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology University of Karlsruhe], founded a computer-chess group and started to write a chess program, the [[Rotated Bitboards|rotated bitboard]] engine [[DarkThought]] <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node8.html Rotated Bitboards] from Ernst A. Heinz ('''1997'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node2.html How DarkThought Plays Chess.]'' [[ICGA Journal#20_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3]]</ref>, in 1994 joined by [[Markus Gille]] <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node10.html Ernst A. Heinz - Professional Experience]</ref>. In 1997 Heinz started to write some recognized papers in the [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]], which were summarized and extended into his 1999 Ph.D thesis [http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node1.html#scale-cchess Scalable Search in Computer Chess], a revised version merchandised as book. From 1999 until 2002 Ernst A. Heinz was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdoctoral_researcher postdoc] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/ Ernst A. Heinz's old personal pages] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]</ref>. 

=Scalable Search Topics=
* [[AEL-Pruning]]
** [[Null Move Pruning#AdaptiveNullMovePruning|Adaptive Null Move Pruning]] 
** [[Futility Pruning#Extendedfutilityprunning|Extended Futility Pruning]] 
** [[Razoring#LimitedRazoring|Limited Razoring]]
* [[Knowledge#PerfectKnowledge|Perfect Knowledge]]
** [[Interior Node Recognizer]]
** [[Endgame Tablebases]]
*** [[Edwards' Tablebases]]
*** [[Nalimov Tablebases]]
*** [[Thompson's Databases]]
* [[Depth#DiminishingReturns|Diminishing Returns]]
* [[DarkThought]]
** [[Bitboards]]
** [[Rotated Bitboards]]

=Selected Publications= 
<ref>[[ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database]]</ref> <ref>[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node17.html Scientific Articles in Books and Journals]</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/h/Heinz:Ernst_A= dblp: Ernst A. Heinz]</ref>
==1992 ...== 
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1992'''). ''Automatische Elimination von Synchronisationsbarriere in synchronen FORALLs''. M.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology University of Karlsruhe], advisor [[Mathematician#MPhilippsen|Michael Philippsen]] (German)
==1995 ...== 
* [[Mathematician#MPhilippsen|Michael Philippsen]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1995'''). ''Automatic Synchronization Elimination in Synchronous FORALLs''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=3042&punumber%3D3042%26sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A8638%29%26pageNumber%3D2&pageNumber=3 Frontiers'95]
* [http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/w/Main/LutzPrechelt Lutz Prechelt], [[Ernst A. Heinz]], [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1FIyc9kAAAAJ&hl=en Paul Lukowicz], [[Mathematician#WFTichy|Walter F. Tichy]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://www.ipd.uka.de/Tichy/publications.php?id=156 Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science: A Quantitative Study]''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/jss/jss28.html Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 28, No. 1]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1997'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node2.html How DarkThought Plays Chess].'' [[ICGA Journal#20_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1998'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node18.html Extended Futility Pruning].'' [[ICGA Journal#21_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1998'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node33.html Efficient Interior-Node Recognition].'' [[ICGA Journal#21_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1998'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/dt/node46.html DarkThought Goes Deep].'' [[ICGA Journal#21_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''Endgame Databases and Efficient Index Schemes for Chess.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1]], [http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/ps/edb_index.ps.gz ps]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''Knowledgeable Encoding and Querying of Endgame Databases.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2]], [http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/ps/know_edb.ps.gz ps]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''Adaptive Null-Move Pruning.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3]], [http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/ps/adpt_null.ps.gz ps]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''Scalable Search in Computer Chess.'' Ph.D. thesis, [http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/ University of Karlsruhe], advisor [[Mathematician#WFTichy|Walter F. Tichy]] <ref>[http://www.ipd.uka.de/Tichy/people.php?id=45 IPD Tichy - Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinz]</ref> and [[Tony Marsland]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/node1.html#scale-cchess Scalable Search in Computer Chess]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Kaufmann Morgan Kaufmann], [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieweg_Verlag Vieweg-Verlag], [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-322-90178-1 Springer Link] <ref>[[Dap Hartmann]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content23-1.htm#THE%20IMPORTANCE%20OF%20BEING%20SCALABLE The Importance of being Scalable]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1]], Review</ref> <ref>[[Chrilly Donninger]] ('''2000'''). ''Die Wissenschaft kehrt zurück - Computerschach-Forschung und das Buch von Ernst Heinz''. [[Computerschach und Spiele|CSS]] 2/00, [http://www.mustrum.de/chrilly/heinz.pdf pdf] (German)</ref>
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==2000 ...== 
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''AEL Pruning.'' [[ICGA Journal#23_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1]], [http://www.top-5000.nl/ps/AEL%20pruning.pdf pdf]
* [[Eugene Nalimov]], [[Guy Haworth]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4562/ Space-Efficient Indexing of Chess Endgame Tables]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3]], [http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/%7Eheinz/ps/NHH_ICGA.ps.gz postscript]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''A New Self-Play Experiment in Computer Chess''. [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], Laboratory of Computer Science, Technical Memo No. 608, [http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ps/new_exp.ps.gz zipped ps], [http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/lcs/tm/MIT-LCS-TM-608.pdf pdf]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_18 New Self-Play Results in Computer Chess]''. [[CG 2000]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2001'''). ''Self-play Experiments in Computer Chess Revisited.'' [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2001'''). ''Modeling the “Go Deep” Behaviour of CRAFTY and DARK THOUGHT.'' [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Eugene Nalimov]], [[Guy Haworth]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4563/ Space-efficient Indexing of Endgame Tables for Chess]''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2001'''). ''Selected Goodies of DarkThought''. Invited Lecture, [[6th Computer Olympiad#Workshop|6th Computer Olympiad Workshop]], [https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad/workshop/InvitedLecture-Heinz.ppt ppt]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2001'''). ''Self-Play, Deep Search and Diminishing Returns.'' [[ICGA Journal#24_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2003'''). ''Follow-Up on Self-Play, Deep Search, and Diminishing Returns.'' [[ICGA Journal#26_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2]]
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]] ('''2003'''). ''Static Recognition of Potential Wins in KNNKB and KNNKN''. [[Advances in Computer Games 10]]
* [[Jaap van den Herik]], [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Ernst A. Heinz]] (Eds.) ('''2004'''). ''Advances in Computer Games, Many Games, Many Challenges''. [[Advances in Computer Games 10|10th International Conference, ACG 2003]], Graz, Austria, November 24-27, 2003, Revised Papers. Series: [[IFIP]] [http://www.springer.com/series/6102 Advances in Information and Communication Technology], Vol. 135
==2005 ...==
* [[Ernst A. Heinz]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/k/Kunze:Kai.html Kai S. Kunze], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/g/Gruber:Matthias.html Matthias Gruber], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Bannach:David.html David Bannach], [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1FIyc9kAAAAJ&hl=en Paul Lukowicz] ('''2006'''). ''Using Wearable Sensors for Real-Time Recognition Tasks in Games of Martial Arts - An Initial Experiment''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cig/cig2006.html#HeinzKGBL06 CIG 2006]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/b/Bannach:David.html David Bannach], [http://www.sps.ele.tue.nl/members/O.Amft/ Oliver Amft], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/k/Kunze:Kai.html Kai S. Kunze], [[Ernst A. Heinz]], [http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/people/gerhartr Gerhard Tröster], [http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1FIyc9kAAAAJ&hl=en Paul Lukowicz] ('''2007'''). ''Waving Real Hand Gestures Recorded by Wearable Motion Sensors to a Virtual Car and Driver in a Mixed-Reality Parking Game''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cig/cig2007.html#BannachAKHTL07 CIG 2007]

=External Links= 
* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/heinz/ Ernst's WWW Pages]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=15 Ernst Heinz' ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=219818 Ernst Heinz - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]

=References= 
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