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'''Ren Wu''',<br/>
a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American Chinese American] computer scientist in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data big data], [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] industry and former [[Chinese Chess|Xiangqi]] and chess programmer.
He holds a Ph.D. from [[Queen Mary, University of London]], and was affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard Hewlett Packard] ''Intelligent Information Management Lab'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto Palo Alto, California], focusing on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and fusion of structured and unstructured information, [[GPU|GPU computing]], and massively parallel algorithms.
More recently, Ren Wu is founder and CEO at ''NovuMind'', producing the ''NovuTensor'' chip, a special-purpose processor designed to perform [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor tensor] computation for [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural networks]] <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/technology/ NovuMind - Technology]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/ NovuMind - Company]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/leadership/ NovuMind - Leadership]</ref>.
=Programs=
Ren Wu's Chinese and Western chess programs were [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=274 Surprise], two times Chinese chess Gold Medal winner at the [[3rd Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|3rd]] and [[4th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|4th Computer Olympiad]], and the chess program [[Initiative]] which did not compete in [[ICCA]] tournaments <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/VnaUuGmkuQQ/qCmmDeYAIPkJ WMCCC Jakarta] by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], August 8, 1996</ref> <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/ZY2Hq4e5RyE/9nseFZx1xQgJ Re: Fritz5 ECM test suite results] by [[Ren Wu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 6, 1997</ref>.
According to [[Chris Whittington]] the chess software for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 Psion 3a] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant PDA] was written by Ren Wu <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.psion/7XLMSdq4kfY/NGqToXHc30EJ Re: Chess software for psion] post 5 by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 18, 1996</ref>.
=ICGA Journal Award=
Along with [[Don Beal]], Ren Wu researched and published on [[Retrograde Analysis]] for Chinese Chess [[Endgame Tablebases]], and won the 2002 [[ICGA Journal#JournalAward|ICGA Journal Award]] <ref>[[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wu:Ren.html dblp: Ren Wu]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
==2000 ...==
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Computer Analysis of some Chinese Chess Endgames''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-3.htm#FAST Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms]''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001, with reference to [http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6302&p=29956 Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm] by [[Alvaro Cardoso|Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 10, 2007</ref>
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Retrograde Analysis on Different Architectures''. [[IEEE]], 10th Conference in High Performance Distributed Computing
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Solving Chinese Chess Endgames by Database Construction''. Information Sciences, Vol. 135, Nos. 3-4
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''A memory efficient retrograde algorithm and its application to solve Chinese Chess endgames.'' [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/index.html More Games of No Chance] edited by [[Richard J. Nowakowski]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~binzhang/ Bin Zhang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hsu:Meichun Meichun Hsu] ('''2009'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531668 Clustering billions of data points using GPUs]''. [http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2009/ ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers]
==2010 ...==
* [[Ren Wu]], [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~binzhang/ Bin Zhang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hsu:Meichun Meichun Hsu], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen] ('''2010'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14246-8_56 GPU-Accelerated Predicate Evaluation on Column Store]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/waim/waim2010.html WAIM 2010], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science LNCS] 6184, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen], [[Ren Wu]] ('''2017'''). ''CNN Is All You Need''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09662 arXiv:1712.09662]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/pTufrRRfsOs/rhrlS2TKjskJ Is it worth to program chess in Pascal ? (Re: My first Chess program !)] by [[Ren Wu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 22, 1997 » [[Pascal]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=10468 Re: Let's analyze move 36] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1997
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40782 Re: Bionic v Crafty - a possible solution] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], January 25, 1999 » [[Bionic Impakt]], [[Crafty]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=60304 Machine vs. IGM in Chinese Chess] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], July 13, 1999
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001 <ref>[[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref>
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200376 Wu/Beal predates Koistinen] by [[Guy Haworth]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200443 Re: Wu/Beal predates Koistinen] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=267 Ren Wu's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren-wu-944162/ Ren Wu | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.novumind.com/company/ren-wus-blog/ Ren Wu's blog]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Wu]]
[[Category:Xiangqi Programmer|Wu]]
[[FILE:RenWu.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren-wu-944162/| Ren Wu <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren-wu-944162/ Ren Wu | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Ren Wu''',<br/>
a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American Chinese American] computer scientist in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data big data], [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] industry and former [[Chinese Chess|Xiangqi]] and chess programmer.
He holds a Ph.D. from [[Queen Mary, University of London]], and was affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard Hewlett Packard] ''Intelligent Information Management Lab'' in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto Palo Alto, California], focusing on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and fusion of structured and unstructured information, [[GPU|GPU computing]], and massively parallel algorithms.
More recently, Ren Wu is founder and CEO at ''NovuMind'', producing the ''NovuTensor'' chip, a special-purpose processor designed to perform [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor tensor] computation for [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural networks]] <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/technology/ NovuMind - Technology]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/ NovuMind - Company]</ref> <ref>[https://www.novumind.com/company/leadership/ NovuMind - Leadership]</ref>.
=Programs=
Ren Wu's Chinese and Western chess programs were [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=274 Surprise], two times Chinese chess Gold Medal winner at the [[3rd Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|3rd]] and [[4th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|4th Computer Olympiad]], and the chess program [[Initiative]] which did not compete in [[ICCA]] tournaments <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/VnaUuGmkuQQ/qCmmDeYAIPkJ WMCCC Jakarta] by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], August 8, 1996</ref> <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/ZY2Hq4e5RyE/9nseFZx1xQgJ Re: Fritz5 ECM test suite results] by [[Ren Wu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 6, 1997</ref>.
According to [[Chris Whittington]] the chess software for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 Psion 3a] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant PDA] was written by Ren Wu <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.psion/7XLMSdq4kfY/NGqToXHc30EJ Re: Chess software for psion] post 5 by [[Chris Whittington]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], April 18, 1996</ref>.
=ICGA Journal Award=
Along with [[Don Beal]], Ren Wu researched and published on [[Retrograde Analysis]] for Chinese Chess [[Endgame Tablebases]], and won the 2002 [[ICGA Journal#JournalAward|ICGA Journal Award]] <ref>[[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms''. [[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wu:Ren.html dblp: Ren Wu]</ref> <ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
==2000 ...==
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Computer Analysis of some Chinese Chess Endgames''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-3.htm#FAST Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms]''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001, with reference to [http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6302&p=29956 Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm] by [[Alvaro Cardoso|Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 10, 2007</ref>
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Retrograde Analysis on Different Architectures''. [[IEEE]], 10th Conference in High Performance Distributed Computing
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Solving Chinese Chess Endgames by Database Construction''. Information Sciences, Vol. 135, Nos. 3-4
* [[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2002'''). ''A memory efficient retrograde algorithm and its application to solve Chinese Chess endgames.'' [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/index.html More Games of No Chance] edited by [[Richard J. Nowakowski]]
* [[Ren Wu]], [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~binzhang/ Bin Zhang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hsu:Meichun Meichun Hsu] ('''2009'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531668 Clustering billions of data points using GPUs]''. [http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2009/ ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers]
==2010 ...==
* [[Ren Wu]], [https://cedar.buffalo.edu/~binzhang/ Bin Zhang], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Hsu:Meichun Meichun Hsu], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen] ('''2010'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14246-8_56 GPU-Accelerated Predicate Evaluation on Column Store]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/waim/waim2010.html WAIM 2010], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science LNCS] 6184, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chen:Qiming Qiming Chen], [[Ren Wu]] ('''2017'''). ''CNN Is All You Need''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09662 arXiv:1712.09662]
=Forum Posts=
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess.computer/pTufrRRfsOs/rhrlS2TKjskJ Is it worth to program chess in Pascal ? (Re: My first Chess program !)] by [[Ren Wu]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], September 22, 1997 » [[Pascal]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=10468 Re: Let's analyze move 36] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], October 08, 1997
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=40782 Re: Bionic v Crafty - a possible solution] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], January 25, 1999 » [[Bionic Impakt]], [[Crafty]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=60304 Machine vs. IGM in Chinese Chess] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], July 13, 1999
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200335 Generating egtbs ICGAJ] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten|Tony Werten]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001 <ref>[[Ren Wu]], [[Don Beal]] ('''2001'''). ''Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms''.[[ICGA Journal#24_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.abc.se/~m10051/eg.txt Computing endgames with few men] by [[Urban Koistinen]]</ref>
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200376 Wu/Beal predates Koistinen] by [[Guy Haworth]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001
: [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=200443 Re: Wu/Beal predates Koistinen] by [[Ren Wu]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2001
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=267 Ren Wu's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren-wu-944162/ Ren Wu | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.novumind.com/company/ren-wus-blog/ Ren Wu's blog]
=References=
<references />
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