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[[FILE:Markws.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.markwatson.com/| Mark Watson <ref>[http://www.markwatson.com/ Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author]</ref> ]]
'''Mark Watson''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, programmer, consultant and author of books on [[Artificial Intelligence]], [[Java]], [[Ruby]], [[Lisp|Common LISP]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Semantic Web], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming NLP], [[Cpp|C++]], [[Linux]], [[Scheme]], and [[Windows]].
=Go and Chess=
Mark Watson is an avid Chess and [[Go]] player, and wrote the first commercial Go playing program, ''Honninbo Warrior'' for the [[Apple II]] in the late 1970s <ref>[http://radio-weblogs.com/0115954/2003/03/27.html Mark Watson's Blog], March 27, 2003</ref>. He also wrote the free [[Basic]] chess program, [[Apple]] distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape <ref>[http://blog.markwatson.com/2010/09/why-doesnt-itunes-support-ogg-sound-files-out-of-the-box/ why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog], September 9, 2010</ref>. [[Mark Watson Chess]] participated at the [[MCCT 1978|Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] in March 1978 in the class C section <ref>[[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9</ref>. His [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] [[Programming|programming]] with [[Java]] textbook <ref>[[Mark Watson]] ('''2008'''). ''Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java''. Third Edition, [http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent_data/JavaAI3rd.pdf pdf]</ref>, accompanied with an associated [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub GitHub] source code repository <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src Java-AI-Book-Code/src at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref>, comes with a Java chess program skeleton <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src/search/game Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref> and much more AI-topics under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License Apache 2.0 License] or under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License GNU Lesser General Public License 3] <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/licenses-for-book-code Java-AI-Book-Code/licenses-for-book-code at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Mark Watson's books on Java, Artificial Intelligence, Text Mining, Ruby, Common Lisp, Clojure, and C++]</ref>
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''1994'''). ''C++ Power Paradigms''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill], from [http://www.amazon.com/C-Power-Paradigms-Mark-Watson/dp/0079117864 amazon] » [[Cpp|C++]], [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|Genetic Algorithms]], [[Neural Networks]]
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/web3_book/index.html Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing]''. APress 2009
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition]''.
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Common Lisp Edition]''.
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2013'''). ''[https://leanpub.com/javaai Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java]''. Fourth Edition
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon]''. Fourth Edition
=External Links=
* [http://www.markwatson.com/ Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author]
* [https://plus.google.com/117612439870300277560/about Mark Watson - Google+]
* [https://github.com/mark-watson?tab=repositories Mark Watson · GitHub]
: [https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src/search/game Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]
* [http://radio-weblogs.com/0115954/2003/03/27.html Mark Watson's Blog], March 27, 2003
* [http://blog.markwatson.com/2010/09/why-doesnt-itunes-support-ogg-sound-files-out-of-the-box/ why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog], September 9, 2010
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=94276 The chess games of Mark Watson] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
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[[FILE:Markws.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.markwatson.com/| Mark Watson <ref>[http://www.markwatson.com/ Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author]</ref> ]]
'''Mark Watson''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, programmer, consultant and author of books on [[Artificial Intelligence]], [[Java]], [[Ruby]], [[Lisp|Common LISP]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Semantic Web], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming NLP], [[Cpp|C++]], [[Linux]], [[Scheme]], and [[Windows]].
=Go and Chess=
Mark Watson is an avid Chess and [[Go]] player, and wrote the first commercial Go playing program, ''Honninbo Warrior'' for the [[Apple II]] in the late 1970s <ref>[http://radio-weblogs.com/0115954/2003/03/27.html Mark Watson's Blog], March 27, 2003</ref>. He also wrote the free [[Basic]] chess program, [[Apple]] distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape <ref>[http://blog.markwatson.com/2010/09/why-doesnt-itunes-support-ogg-sound-files-out-of-the-box/ why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog], September 9, 2010</ref>. [[Mark Watson Chess]] participated at the [[MCCT 1978|Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] in March 1978 in the class C section <ref>[[Larry Wagner]] ('''1978'''). ''Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament''. [http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102686281 Silicon Gulch Gazette], Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9</ref>. His [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] [[Programming|programming]] with [[Java]] textbook <ref>[[Mark Watson]] ('''2008'''). ''Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java''. Third Edition, [http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent_data/JavaAI3rd.pdf pdf]</ref>, accompanied with an associated [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub GitHub] source code repository <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src Java-AI-Book-Code/src at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref>, comes with a Java chess program skeleton <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src/search/game Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref> and much more AI-topics under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License Apache 2.0 License] or under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License GNU Lesser General Public License 3] <ref>[https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/licenses-for-book-code Java-AI-Book-Code/licenses-for-book-code at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Mark Watson's books on Java, Artificial Intelligence, Text Mining, Ruby, Common Lisp, Clojure, and C++]</ref>
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''1994'''). ''C++ Power Paradigms''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill], from [http://www.amazon.com/C-Power-Paradigms-Mark-Watson/dp/0079117864 amazon] » [[Cpp|C++]], [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|Genetic Algorithms]], [[Neural Networks]]
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/web3_book/index.html Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing]''. APress 2009
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition]''.
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.markwatson.com/books/ Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Common Lisp Edition]''.
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2013'''). ''[https://leanpub.com/javaai Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java]''. Fourth Edition
* [[Mark Watson]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon]''. Fourth Edition
=External Links=
* [http://www.markwatson.com/ Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author]
* [https://plus.google.com/117612439870300277560/about Mark Watson - Google+]
* [https://github.com/mark-watson?tab=repositories Mark Watson · GitHub]
: [https://github.com/mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code/tree/master/src/search/game Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub]
* [http://radio-weblogs.com/0115954/2003/03/27.html Mark Watson's Blog], March 27, 2003
* [http://blog.markwatson.com/2010/09/why-doesnt-itunes-support-ogg-sound-files-out-of-the-box/ why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog], September 9, 2010
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=94276 The chess games of Mark Watson] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]
=References=
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