Alvin+M.+Despain

an American electrical engineer, and co-founder and [|CTO] of //Acorn Technologies// before his retirement in 2008. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the [|University of Utah] in 1966, and has been a professor at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, [|Utah State University], University of Utah, and University of Southern California, where he is [|professor emeritus] since 2001. His research interests include [|computer architecture], [|multiprocessor systems], [|logic programming], [|quantum computation] and [|design automation]. || toc =Computer Chess= Already in the 70s, Despain designed a chess machine described by Ozalp Babaoglu, but never obtained funding for full construction. In 1990, along with James Testa, Despain co-authored on the Berkeley Chess Microprocessor (BCM). The BCM was apparently used in Testa's chess entity Zerker, a promising newcomer at ACM 1990 as it reported 7,000,000 moves per second, roughly three times faster than Deep Thought at that time, but damage to the machine during shipment forced its withdrawal , and it seems the project was later abandoned.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Alvin M. Despain, David A. Patterson (**1978**). //[|X-Tree: A Tree Structured Multi-Processor Computer Architecture]//. [|ISCA 1978]
 * Alvin M. Despain (**1979**). //[|Very Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms Hardware for Implementation]//. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 28, No. 5
 * [|Philip Bitar], Alvin M. Despain (**1986**). //Multiprocessor Cache Synchronization: Issues, Innovations, Evolution//. [|ISCA 1986]
 * Alvin M. Despain (**1988**). //Prolog at Berkeley//. [|COMPCON 1988]
 * James Testa, Alvin M. Despain (**1990**). //[|A CMOS VLSI chess microprocessor]//. University of California, Berkeley, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference
 * [|Bruce K. Holmer], Alvin M. Despain (**1991**). //Viewing Instruction Set Design as an Optimization Problem//. [|MICRO 1991]
 * Alvin M. Despain (**1994**). //[|Symbolic Supercomputing]//. in [|Frontiers of Supercomputing II: A National Reassessment] edited by [|Karyn R. Ames] and [|Alan Brenner], [|University of California Press]
 * [|Kevin M. Obenland], Alvin M. Despain (**1998**). //Simulating the Effect of Decoherence and Inaccuracies on a Quantum Computer//. [|QCQC 1998]

=External Links=
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Alvin Despain]
 * [|Acorn - Board of Directors]
 * [|USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering: Alvin Despain]
 * [|Alvin M. Despain - ScholarWiki]

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