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'''Kenneth Ward (Ken) Church''',<br/>
an American computer scientist at [http://web.jhu.edu/hltcoe Human Language Technology Center of Excellence] at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University Johns Hopkins University] <ref>[https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/kchurch4/public_html/ Kenneth Church HomePage]</ref>. Prior he was at [[Microsoft]] Research and head of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining] department in [[Bell Laboratories|AT&T Bell Laboratories]]. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in computer science, and researched on many areas of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics computational linguistics].

=Corresponding Squares=
Ken Church wrote his undergraduate thesis, supervised by [[Richard Greenblatt]], on chess programming and the implementation of [[Corresponding Squares|corresponding squares]]. Thanks to considerable help and encouragement from [[Hans Berliner]], it was published at [[Conferences#IJCAI1979|IJCAI-79]], as ''Co-ordinate Squares: A Solution to Many Chess Pawn Endgames'' <ref>[[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1979'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=67030 Co-ordinate Squares: A Solution to Many Chess Pawn Endgames]''. abbreviated version of B.S. Thesis, [[Conferences#IJCAI1979|IJCAI-79]], Tokyo, Japan</ref>.

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~kchurch/wwwfiles/publications.html Ken Church's Publications]</ref>
* [[Russell M. Church]], [[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1977'''). ''Plans, Goals, and Search Strategies for the Selection of a Move in Chess''. [[Chess Skill in Man and Machine]]
* [[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1978'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=67030 Co-ordinate Squares: A Solution to Many Chess Pawn Endgames]''. B.Sc. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], advisor [[Richard Greenblatt]], reprinted 1988 in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]
* [[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1979'''). ''Co-ordinate Squares: A Solution to Many Chess Pawn Endgames''. abbreviated version of B.Sc. thesis, [[Conferences#IJCAI1979|IJCAI-79]], Tokyo, Japan
* [[Kenneth W. Church]] ('''1983'''). ''Phrase-Structure Parsing : A Method for Taking Advantage of Allophonic Constraints''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]

=External Links=
* [http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~kchurch/ Kenneth Church HomePage]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=97406 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Kenneth Church]

=References=
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