under [[Mathematician#RETarjan|Robert E. Tarjan]] and [[John H. Conway]] <ref>[https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=87407 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Warren Smith]</ref>.
He was affiliated with the [[Bell Laboratories|AT&T Bell Laboratories]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_Corporation_of_America NEC Research Institute], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey Princeton, New Jersey], where he wrote most of his papers during the 90s, and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMACS DIMACS].
His research interest covers the broad range of mathematics, physics, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory information theory], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics politics], amongst other things on [[Algorithms|algorithms]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory coding theory], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography cryptography], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics combinatorics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory computational complexity], [[Search|game tree search]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory game theory], computer chess, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics quantum mechanics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics Bayesian statistics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting range voting] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy direct democracy]. With the advent of [[Deep Learning|deep learning]] [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]] chess engines after the [[AlphaZero]] publications, Warren D. Smith discussed [[Leela Chess Zero]] as well as [[Stockfish]] topics in [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero]] and [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]] forums.
=Test Suite for Chess Programs=
* [[Mathematician#Brent|Richard P. Brent]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/o/Osborn:Judy=anne_H= Judy-anne H. Osborn], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''2016'''). ''Lower bounds on maximal determinants of binary matrices via the probabilistic method''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6817 arXiv:1402.6817]
* [[Mathematician#Brent|Richard P. Brent]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/o/Osborn:Judy=anne_H= Judy-anne H. Osborn], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''2016'''). ''Probabilistic lower bounds on maximal determinants of binary matrices''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_Journal_of_Combinatorics Australasian Journal of Combinatorics], Vol. 66, [https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06235 arXiv:1501.06235]
=Forum Posts===2018==* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/dU8v637v2Ig/C1-e5JNKCgAJ Re: Low draw rate in training games/data] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], April 14, 2018* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/EGcJSrZYLiw/netJ4S38CgAJ use multiple neural nets?] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], December 25, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero]]==2019==* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/CrMiK3OR1og/mcFd0NDKDQAJ "boosting" endgames in leela training? Simple change to learning process proposed: "forked" training games] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], January 03, 2019 » [[Leela Chess Zero]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/I0lTgR-fFFU/NGC3kJDzAwAJ Michael Larabel benches lc0 on various GPUs] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], January 14, 2019 » [[Leela Chess Zero#Lc0|Lc0]], [[GPU]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix_Test_Suite Phoronix Test Suite from Wikipedia]</ref>* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/LEo3GSfeoqM/M1dLkoY3BAAJ TCEC 15 superfinal] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], May 15, 2019 » [[TCEC Season 15#Superfinal|TCEC Season 15 Sufi]] * [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/Ual8DTYpH0I/Ah6hDc-ZBQAJ zugzwang suggestion] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], September 15, 2019* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/wOfRuzTSi_8/VgjN8MmSBQAJ high dimensional optimization] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], December 27, 2019 <ref>[[Mathematician#YDauphin|Yann Dauphin]], [[Mathematician#RPascanu|Razvan Pascanu]], [[Mathematician#CGulcehre|Caglar Gulcehre]], [[Mathematician#KCho|Kyunghyun Cho]], [[Mathematician#SGanguli|Surya Ganguli]], [[Mathematician#YBengio|Yoshua Bengio]] ('''2014'''). ''Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2572 arXiv:1406.2572]</ref>==2020==* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/DAWWlmP2OrQ/3w_KhoaUAAAJ underpromoting is worth how many elo?] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], March 08, 2020 » [[Promotions]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/a66u5_FEtmg/_D9GIMgeAAAJ tcec 17 superfinal] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], April 08, 2020 » [[TCEC Season 17#Superfinal|TCEC Season 17 Sufi]] * [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lczero/xtyGkXqeeTY/0j_DeIbkBAAJ Tcec season 18] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], June 14, 2020 » [[TCEC Season 18]]* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/Tc7XRkbRrSs/mqR5NjfcBQAJ Tcec season 18] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], June 14, 2020
=External Links=
* [http://wdstalks.blogspot.com/ Warren D. Smith's blog]
