He is best known for his work with Feng-hsiung Hsu from 1985-1990 on the Chess playing computers ChipTest and Deep Thought at Carnegie Mellon University which led to his 1990 Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation: "A Statistical Study of Selective Minister-Max Search in Computer Chess".
Anantharaman obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics in 1982 from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi). He got (in 1977) IIT-JEE rank (Associated Independent Recording) # 2. Anantharaman went to United States of America and joined Carnegie Mellon University as a Doctor of Philosophy student where he worked on the chess playing computers ChipTest and DeepThought with Feng-hsiung Hsu.
Anantharaman received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990 and joined the field of biotechnology and Feng-hsiung Hsu joined International Business Machines Corporation to design the Deep Blue International Business Machines Corporation super-computer, which defeated Garry Kasparov in the historic chess match.
In 1985, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Feng-hsiung Hsu, Anantharaman, Murray Campbell and Andreas Nowatzyk used spare chips they"d found to put together a chess-playing machine that they called ChipTest. Following this work, Anantharaman focused his attentions into the field of biostatistics and the application of Bayesian methods to the analysis of single molecule Optical Mapping technologies.
Currently he is working as Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Opgen, Incorporated, Madison, Wisconsin.
This work was the foundation for the International Business Machines Corporation chess-playing computer Deep Blue which beat world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. By 1987, the machine, integrating some innovative ideas about search strategies, had become the reigning computer chess champion. A successor, Deep Thought, using two special-purpose chips, plus about 200 off-the-shelf chips, working in parallel, achieved grandmaster-level play.
