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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[People]] * Robert Hyatt'''
'''Robert Morgan (Bob) Hyatt''', [[File:Hyatt.jpg|thumb|right|Robert Hyatt <ref>Image from [[http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt|Dr. Robert Hyatt's UAB homepage]] (dead link)</ref>]]
an American computer scientist, computer chess researcher, chess programmer, acknowledged computer chess authority, and associate professor at Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]], since September 2016 officially retired from UAB <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61289&start=2 Re: Around Crafty dev. ...] by Robert Hyatt, [[CCC]], September 01, 2016</ref> . Bob Hyatt is one of the most active researchers in computer chess, being involved from 1968 until the present. He holds a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science Master of Science] from [[University of Southern Mississippi]] in 1983 with a thesis on [[Cray Blitz]] <ref>Robert Hyatt ('''1983'''). ''Cray Blitz - A Computer Chess Playing Program''. Master's Thesis, [[University of Southern Mississippi]]</ref> , and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D. Ph.D.] from [[University of Alabama at Birmingham|UAB]] in 1988 on the topic of [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] <ref>Robert Hyatt ('''1988'''). ''A High-Performance Parallel Algorithm to Search Depth-First Game Trees''. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]]</ref>.
His engine [[Crafty]] was the strongest [[:Category:Open Source Engines|open source]] engine for many years in the 90's and early 00's. He was primary author of [[Blitz]] and [[Cray Blitz]], the two-time winner of the [[World Computer Chess Championship]], the [[WCCC 1983]] and the [[WCCC 1986]]. Beside research and publications on parallel search, [[Transposition Table|transposition table]], [[Time Management|time management]] and [[Book Learning|book learning]], Bob is inventor of [[Rotated Bitboards|rotated bitboards]]. He is active poster in [[Computer Chess Forums]], served as moderator of [[CCC]], and as member of the [[Who's Who|Secretariat]] of [[ICGA Investigations]].
=Photos=
==ACM 1982==
[[File:Valvo_Mitman_Newborn_Thompson_Hyatt.Dallas.1982.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|580px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdcd092]]
[[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn]], [[Ken Thompson]] and Robert Hyatt, [[ACM 1982]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdcd092 Photo] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
==WCCC 1983==
* Robert Hyatt ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.craftychess.com/hyatt/bitmaps.html Rotated Bitmaps, a New Twist on an Old Idea]''. [[ICGA Journal#22_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4]]
==2000 ...==
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hill:Aubrey_E=.html Aubrey E. Hill], [http://wwwdblp.cisuni-trier.uab.edude/pers/hd/jonesj/jones.html Jones:Warren_T= Warren T. Jones], Robert Hyatt, [http://cbadblp.uauni-trier.edude/pers/hd/~mhardinh/ Hardin:J=_Michael J. Michael Hardin] ('''2001'''). ''Parallel Automated Knowledge Acquisition of Case-Based Semantic Networks from Relational Databases''. [http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10952 Journal of Systems Integration], Vol. 10, No. 4
* Robert Hyatt, [[Tim Mann]] ('''2002'''). ''[http://www.craftychess.com/hyatt/hashing.html A lock-less transposition table implementation for parallel search chess engines]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]] » [[Shared Hash Table#Lockless|Lock-less Hashing]]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Wang:Yibing.html Yibing Wang], Robert Hyatt ('''2002'''). ''A Distributed Task Scheduler for Cluster Computing''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/pdpta/pdpta2002-2.html#WangH02 PDPTA'02]
=Forum Posts=
==1993 ...==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/J9Pkg9lOpig/tBN5dVRATwsJ Cray Blitz Evaluation] by Robert Hyatt, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcrec.games.chess]], March 05, 1993 » [[Cray Blitz]], [[Evaluation]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/rUVc23O3-Zg/K8P-DjIwKLUJ Re: Parallel Chess Programs?] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], January 25, 1993* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/MtVkDmTrYSc/98j7gsMDM4QJ Cray Blitz / ACM '94] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rec.games.chess]], July 07, 1994 » [[Cray Blitz]], [[ACM 1994]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/vvl1nLv1MD8/oHVKdLXuiaUJ bitboard move generation] by Robert Hyatt, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcrec.games.chess]], October 25, 1994 » [[Bitboards]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/M4CKCmqDNkI/TjVJEQY0GC0J bitboard position evaluations] by Robert Hyatt, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcrec.games.chess]], November 17, 1994 » [[Bitboards]], [[Evaluation]]
==1995 ...==
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/b6d3210fc02baa93 Rotated bitboards - experiment and result] by Robert Hyatt, [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], February 28, 1996 » [[Rotated Bitboards]]
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