GMT: Kasparov vs Deep Blue
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Murray S. Campbell is a research scientist at the IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and one of
the original memers of the Deep Blue computer chess group. He was the
recipient of an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on the
Deep Blue project. Deep Blue and its predecesors have won many awards
and distinctions: the first computer to defeat a grandmaster in
tournament play, the Fredkin Prize for the first grandmaster-level
chess computer, the OMNI Challenge Prize, and first computer to defeat
world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a regulation game. The programs
developed by Campbell and his colleagues have also won numerous ACM
International and World Computer Chess championships.
Campbell received his doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University and
his masters from the University of Alberta. He has been involved in
computer chess research for more than fifteen years and is himself an
expert chess player and the former chess champion of Alberta. He has
coauthored a number of papers on computer chess, including a Mephisto
Award-winning paper on selective searcch algorithms. His principal
research interest is the use of brute-force search as a means of
solving complex problems. Other interests include data-mining and
parallel-search algorithms.
    
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