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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * James Gillogly'''
an American computer scientist and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography cryptographer] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND RAND Corporation]. He graduated from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1978, receiving a Ph.D. in computer science. His thesis ''Performance Analysis of the Technology Program'' was advised by [[Allen Newell]] <ref>[[James Gillogly]] ('''1978'''). ''Performance Analysis of the Technology Chess Program''. Ph.D. Thesis. Tech. Report CMU-CS-78-189, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/usr/ftp/scan/CMU-CS-77-gillogly.pdf CMU-CS-77 pdf]</ref>.
James Gillogly was the primary author of the [[Tech|The Technology Chess Program]], which was the predecessor of all modern chess programs, using a [[Claude Shannon|Shannon]] [[Type A Strategy]]. In 1970, Tech was written in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS BLISS], a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon, and in 1977 ported to [[C]]. Gillogly further authored the [[Fortran]] chess player dubbed [[MAX (Gillogly)|MAX]] <ref>James Gillogly ('''1970'''). ''[http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4428/ MAX : A FORTRAN Chess Player]''. [http://www.rand.org/ RAND] paper</ref>, and along with [[Samuel Fuller]] and [[John Gaschnig]], analyzed the [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] algorithm <ref>[[Samuel Fuller]], [[John Gaschnig]], [[James Gillogly]] ('''1973'''). ''An Analysis of the Alpha-Beta Pruning Algorithm.'' Technical Report, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/g/gillogly_james_j.html Articles by Gillogly at rand.org, 1970–2004]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref>
* [[James Gillogly]] ('''1970'''). ''[http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4428/ MAX : A FORTRAN Chess Player]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND RAND] paper
* [[James Gillogly]] ('''1971'''). ''[http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0736043 The Technology Chess Program]''. [[Carnegie Mellon University]], CS-71-109, [http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2974&context=compsci pdf]
=Forum Posts=
* [httphttps://groups.google.com/groupd/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/threadDFjVHlufRa0/0c58d51e5b9f45ad# Lw2Ale1MaZwJ Computer Chess Hall of Fame - Revised Edition] by [[James Gillogly|Jim Gillogly]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], post 10 and 23 by Jim Gillogly, April 14, 1997
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