Feng-hsiung Hsu

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hsu.

Feng-hsiung Hsu (Chinese: 許峰雄; pinyin: Xǔ Fēng Xióng; Cantonese: Heoi2 Fung1 Hung4) (nicknamed Crazy Bird^[1]) is the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion (ISBN 0-691-09065-3). He started his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University in the field of computer chess in the year 1985.^[2] In 1988 he was part of the "Deep Thought" team that won the Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Deep Thought's Grandmaster-level performance.^[3] In 1989 he joined IBM to design a chess-playing computer^[4] and a received a Ph.D. with honors from Carnegie Melon University.^[2]

In 1991, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded him a Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work on Deep Blue. In 1996, the supercomputer lost to world chess champion Kasparov^[3] who hailed from Moscow Russia.^[2] After the Kasparov match, the Feng's team went back to work for a re-match. During the re-match with Kasparov, the super-computer had double the processing power it previously had during the former match. On May 11 1997, Kasparov lost the sixth and final game, and with it, the match (2.5-3.5).^[3] His super-computer defeated of the World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 in New York.^[4]

Prior to building the supercomputer Deep Blue^[4] that defeated Kasparov, Feng-hsiung Hsu worked on many other chess computers. He started with ChipTest, a simple chess-playing chip very different from the other chess-playing computer being developed at Carnegie Mellon, Hitech, which was developed by Hans Berliner and included 64 different chess chips. Feng-hsiung Hsu went on to build the successively better chess-playing computers Deep Thought, Deep Thought II, and Deep Blue Prototype.^{[citation needed]} He currently works on hardware maintanence and testing.^[2]

[edit] External links

• Chess, China, and Education: A Unbiquity Interview with F-H Hsu [5]

[edit] References

1. ^ Computer History Museum. "Mastering the Game a History of Computer Chess." February 24, 2007. [1]
2. ^ ^{a b c d} IBM. "IBM Research Scientist: Feng-Hsiung Hsu." 2007. February 26, 2007.[2]
3. ^ ^{a b c} Computer History Museum. "Defeating the World Chess Champion." February 24, 2007. [3]
4. ^ ^{a b c} Shroder, Ed. "Historic Pictures." 2007. February 24, 2007. [4]