Bob+Herschberg

was a Dutch chemist, computer scientist, and from 1978 until his retirement at January 16, 1998, professor of Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. With Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg was long time editor of the ICCA Journal as well as editor of the Advances in Computer Chess 7 conference proceedings. || toc =Biography= Born 1928 in [|Rotterdam], Israel Samuel Herschberg visited the [|Gymnasium Erasmianum] until the [|Nuremberg Laws] were applied during the [|German Occupation of the Netherlands] in [|World War II]. He continued at the //Joodse Lycea// ([|Jewish] College) in Rotterdam and [|Amsterdam], until he got arrested in April 1944, and imprisoned in the [|Bergen-Belsen] [|Nazi concentration camp] (via [|Westerbork]). After his liberation he continued at Gymnasium Erasmianum and got a diplom in 1946.
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 * [[image:BobHerschberg.jpg width="168" height="179" link="http://www.giga.nl/walter/computers/hackermedia/pers/19871128-herschberg-BD.jpg"]] ||~  || **Israel Samuel (Bob) Herschberg**, (March 18, 1928 - March 19, 1998)
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Bob Herschberg started to study chemistry in Amsterdam and had first contact with computers in 1958. His 1966 thesis //Overdetermined Linear Systems in Multicomponent Spectrophotometry// from the [|Eindhoven University of Technology] was a groundbreaking publication, and his related school of information theory was yielding a new generation of computer scientist in the Netherlands. After a career as consultant at [|Nederlandse Staatsmijnen] and [|Unilever], where he revealed many errors in the operating systems of their mainframes, he accepted a professorship at Delft University of Technology in 1978, with research interests [|Information security] and Computer Chess. He had the fame as "[|The Ethical Hacker]" and in his inaugural address titled //In de Ban van de Fout// (Under the spell of error) he stated that the protection of private-sensitive data is actually impossible. Only two months after his retirement, Israel Samuel Herschberg passed away at age 70.

=Poems= Under the acronym **DRISH**, Bob Herschberg was a writer of poems, and published/translated [|Hebrew] and French poems and literature of [|Judah Halevi], [|Shmuel Yosef Agnon], [|Leah Goldberg] and [|Charles d’ Orléans].

=Quotes= by David Levy from //Intelligence blues//, //Bewaar Me// :

by Jaap van den Herik from //Israel Samuel Herschberg: An Obituary//

=Selected Publications=

1966

 * Israel Samuel Herschberg (**1966**). //Overdetermined Linear Systems in Multicomponent Spectrophotometry//. Proefschrift, available as [|pdf reprint]

1977

 * Bob Herschberg, [|J.C.A. Boekhorst] (**1977**). //Concurrent File Access Under Unpredictability//. Inf. Process. Lett. 6(6): 203-208

1982

 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1982**). //Donnerwetter//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1

1984

 * Harry Nefkens, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1984**). //De openingsbibliotheek van het schaakprogramma PION//. [|THD] rapport (Dutch)

1985

 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1985**). //The Construction of an Omniscient Endgame Data Base//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1985**). //Calling All Mates// ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1985**). //Elementary Theory Improved, a Conjecture Refuted//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1985**). //A Gauge of Endgames//. ICCA Journal Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 225-229.

1986

 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1986**). //A Data Base on Data Bases//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1986**). //Thompson's New Data-Base Results//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1
 * Bob Herschberg (**1986**). //The 5th World Microcomputer Chess Championship//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, Review on a booklet by C. Roos and T. Sibbing, Computer Chess Foundation Amsterdam
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1986**). //A Note on KBBK//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1986**). //Omniscience, the Rulegiver?// Proceedings of L'Intelligenza Artificiale Ed Il Gioco Degli Scacchi, IIIo Convegno Internazionale (eds. B. Pernici and M. Somalvico), pp. 1-17.

1987

 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1987**). //The KBBKN Statistics: New Data from Ken Thompson//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1987**). //By Crawls and Creeps//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1987**). //More Truth on KBBK Database Results//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2
 * Hans Zellner, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1987**). //Corrections and Substantiations to KBNK//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad (**1987**). //A Six-Men-Endgame Database: KRP(a2)KbBP(a3)//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, [|pdf]
 * Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1987**). //Complexity Starts at Five.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
 * Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1987**). //Perfect Knowledge and Beyond//. Report 37-87, Delft University of Technology, Delft.

1988

 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1988**). //Computer Checks on Human Analyses of the KRKB Endgame//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad (**1988**). //Karpov Amends Timman's Analysis//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, [|pdf]
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg, Najib Nakad (**1988**). //A Reply to R. Sattler's Remarks on the KRP(a2)KbBP(a3) Database//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2/3, [|pdf]

1989

 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo (**1989**). //Verifying and Codifying Strategies in a Chess Endgame//. Workshop on New Directions in Game-Tree Search
 * Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1989**). //Perfect Knowledge and Beyond//. Advances in Computer Chess 5
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo (**1989**). //Verifying and Codifying Strategies in the KNNKP(h) Endgame//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3, [|pdf]
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1989**). //Thank You, Dr. Shannon//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4 » Claude Shannon, WCCC 1989

1990

 * Bob Herschberg, [|Ronald Paans] (**1990**). //Friday the 13th, facts and fancies//. [|Computers & Security] 9(2): 125-130
 * [|Ronald Paans], Bob Herschberg (**1990**). //Auditing the change management process//. [|Computers & Security] 9(2): 161-174
 * Bob Herschberg, [|Ronald Paans] (**1990**) //Sloppy, sloppier, sloppiest//. [|Computers & Security] 9(3): 223-228
 * Sito Dekker, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1990**). //Perfect Knowledge Revisited//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 111-123.
 * Mikhail Donskoy, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1990**). //Finessing in Games//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik, Patrick Schoo (**1990**). //Verifying and Codifying Strategies in a Chess Endgame//. Computers, Chess, and Cognition, pp. 183-196

1991

 * Victor Allis, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1991**). //Which Games Will Survive//? Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 2
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1991**). //Doubting Castle//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3

1992

 * Dennis Breuker, Victor Allis, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1992**). //A Database as a Second.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1992**). //The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship. Report on the Tournament//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 » WCCC 1992

1993

 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1993**). //Back to fifty//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1
 * Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg. (**1993**). //J. Nunn: Secrets of Rook Endings//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2
 * Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1993**). //Potential Applications of Opponent-Model Search. Part 1: The Domain of Applicability.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4

1994

 * [|Edo Roos Lindgreen], Bob Herschberg (**1994**). //On the validity of the [|Bell-La Padula model]//. [|Computers & Security] 13(4): 317-333
 * Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1994**). //Potential Applications of Opponent-Model Search. Part 2. Risks and strategies//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1994**). //J. Nunn: Secrets of Pawnless Endings//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1994**). //The Five Powers//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4
 * Hiroyuki Iida, Jos Uiterwijk, Jaap van den Herik, Bob Herschberg (**1994**). //Thoughts on the Application of Opponent-Model Search//. Advances in Computer Chess 7

1995

 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1995**). //Mikhail Moiseivich Botvinnik: An Obituary//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 » Mikhail Botvinnik
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1995**). //Aegonics//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, [|pdf]
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1995**). //Dieter Steinwender and Frederic F. Friedel: Schach am PC//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1995**). //Peter Schreiner and Karsten Bauermeister (eds.): Der Schachcomputerkatalog//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4

1996

 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1996**). //Konrad Zuse: An Obituary//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 » Konrad Zuse
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1996**). //Chess or Beyond?// ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2

1997

 * Bob Herschberg (**1997**). //A Brief History of the Future ICCA//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2

1998

 * //**Bewaar Me**//, [|Liber amicorum] voor Prof. dr. I.S. Herschberg, Redactie Jaap van den Herik en [|E. Roos Lindgreen], 16 januari 1998, Drukkerij Van Spijk B.V. Delft, The Netherlands
 * Bob Herschberg (**1998**). //Vers naar Vers//, pp. 8-19.
 * Ben Mittman (**1998**). //Times Past: Some Remembrances and Reflections//, pp. 149-151.
 * Tony Marsland (**1998**). //Too Clever by Half//, pp. 152-153.
 * David Levy (**1998**). //Intelligence Blues//, pp. 154-156.
 * Jonathan Schaeffer (**1998**). //A Database of Databases//, pp. 157-161. A tribute to the late Bob Herschberg, available as [|ps]
 * Jaap van den Herik (**1998**). //Geleerd//, pp. 162-166.
 * Bob Herschberg (**1998**). //Al Goed - Afscheidsrede//, pp. 201-216.

=External Links=
 * [|Israel Samuel Herschberg] from Wikipedia.nl
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Israel Herschberg]

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