Georgy Adelson-Velsky
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Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский; name is sometimes transliterated as Georgii Adelson-Velskii), (b. 8 January 1922) is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. Along with E.M. Landis, he invented the AVL tree in 1962.
In 1965, Adelson-Velsky headed the development of a computer chess program at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow. The program defeated Kotok-McCarthy in the first chess match between computer programs, and evolved into Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion.
He currently resides in Ashdod, Israel.
[edit] External links
- Autobiography (in Russian) – from Ashdod municipal web page
[edit] References
- G.M. Adelson-Velskii, V.L. Arlazarov, A.R. Bitman, A.A. Zhivotovskii and A.V. Uskov, Programming a Computer to Play Chess, Russian Math. Surveys 25, (Mar-Apr 1970), 221-262, Cleaver-Hume Press, London. Translation of proceedings of the 1st Summer School on Mathematical Programming Vol. 2 (1969) 216-252
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