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Today his computer algorithm is printing out reasons for making a move which few people, and occasionally any person, understand(s). His analysis of some classical games of chess demonstrate clearly the structural integrity and dominance of one player, and conversely the relational disarray of the opponent and ultimate loser, well before the point of actual resignation. Atkin's basic thesis in this area of research is simply that there are many areas of human life where the complexity of structure and relations overwhelms the human brain. He is looking fifty years ahead to the common use of prosthetic intelligence once the problems have been described in a language appropriate to them.
Other applications stemming from his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Social_Research_Council SSRC (UK)] project include an analysis of the work of [[Arts#:Category:Piet Mondriaan|Piet Mondrian]], the black humor of a literary work such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 Catch 22], and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets Shakespearian sonnet]. At the same time, he has been generous in helping medical colleagues, and his language has been fruitfully applied in the design of therapeutic facilities for braindamaged elderly patients (Gedye <ref>[http://philpapers.org/rec/GEDOAF John L. Gedye, On accounting for one kind of difference in terms of another kind of difference - PhilPapers]</ref>), structural relationships of the brain recorded by drug residues found upon autopsy (Gedye) , and daily consulting work in clinical psychology ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mulhall Mulhall]). He has also noted, almost in passing, that conventional statistical techniques, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis regression analysis], destroy much structural information in a data set by replacing a relation X by a mapping, so that a is simply regarded as a collection of disconnected O-simplices. Unlike the common correlation coefficient (r), his structure coefficient (h), is a true measure of structural dependence, rather than conventional "linearity."
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/r__h__atkin.html Ron Atkin] from [http://www.interaction-design.org/ interaction-design.org]</ref> <ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-71578 Atkin, Ron 1926- [WorldCat Identities]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/a/Atkin:R=_H=.html dblp: R. H. Atkin]</ref>
* [[Ron Atkin]] ('''1972'''). ''Multi-Dimensional Structure in the Game of Chess''. [http://www.interaction-design.org/references/periodicals/international_journal_of_man-machine_studies_volume_4.html International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 4]
* [[Ron Atkin]] ('''1972'''). ''From cohomology in physics to q-connectivity in social science''. [http://www.interaction-design.org/references/periodicals/international_journal_of_man-machine_studies_volume_4.html International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2]
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