Education
Monty Newborn received his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1967.
Monty Newborn received his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1967.
He co-authored a computer chess program named Ostrich. He was an assistant professor and associate professor at Columbia University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1967 to 1975. In 1975, he joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University and has been with the School since then, serving as its director from 1976 to 1983.
He is the chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Chess Committee since the early 1980s.
His chess program, Ostrich, competed in five world championships dating back to 1974. He served as president of the International Computer Chess Association from 1983 to 1986.
Bibliography
Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere, Springer-Verlag, 2011
Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone, Springer-Verlag, 2003
Automated Theorem Proving: Theory and Practice, Springer-Verlag, 2001
Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age, Springer-Verlag, 1997
How Computers Play Chess, with Doctorate. Levy, WH. Freeman, New York, 1991
All About Chess and Computers, with Doctorate. Levy, Computer Sciences Press, Potomac, Doctor of Medicine, 1982
More Chess and Computers, with Doctorate. Levy, Computer Sciences Press, Potomac, Doctor of Medicine, 1980
Computer Chess, Academic Press, New York, 1975.