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'''Samuel H. (Sam) Fuller, III''',<br/>
an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and distinguished research scientist and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_technology_officer CTO] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeritus emeritus], former vice president, research and development, at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Devices Analog Devices, Inc.], and before, from 1978 undil 1998, vice president of research, and chief scientist at [[Digital Equipment Corporation]].
Sam Fuller received his Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering electical engineering] from [[Stanford University]] in 1972 under advisor [[Mathematician#EJMcCluskey|Edward McCluskey]], and was associate professor at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in the 70s, where he was involved in the design and performance evaluation of several experimental multiprocessor computer systems, and co-authored along with [[John Gaschnig]] and [[James Gillogly]] an analysis of [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] <ref>[[Samuel Fuller]], [[John Gaschnig]], [[James Gillogly]] ('''1973'''). ''An Analysis of the Alpha-Beta Pruning Algorithm''. Technical Report, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>.
