Feng-Hsiung Hsu
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (born 1959)
Who was Feng-Hsiung Hsu?
Feng-Hsiung Hsu was born on January 1, 1959. Feng-hsiung Hsu (Chinese: 許峰雄; pinyin: Xǔ Fēngxióng; born January 1, 1959) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer. He started his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University in the field of computer chess in the year 1985.
Career and public life
Hsu was the architect and the principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess computer. As a child, he played Xiangqi, chess, and Go. ) in electrical engineering, he came to the United States. In 1988 he was part of the "Deep Thought" team that won the Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Deep Thought's grandmaster-level performance.... Feng-hsiung Hsu is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer.
Historical significance
His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, which led to the first chess playing computer to defeat grandmasters in tournament play and the first to achieve a certified grandmaster-level rating. He was awarded the 1991 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions in architecture and algorithms for chess machines. He is the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion.