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an American computer scientist and former chess programmer. While affiliated with [|Sperry Univac] in the 70s, he was co-author of the chess program CHAOS, along with Fred Swartz, Mike Alexander, Victor Berman, William Toikka, and Joe Winograd and later Mark Hersey and Jack O’Keefe. CHAOS was one of the strongest programs of the 70s and early 80s, using an unique, knowledge based and selective best-first, iterative widening approach, keeping the search tree in memory. Short after the WCCC 1980 in [|Linz] and the playoff for the title versus Belle, Ira Ruben left the CHAOS team to work for Apple Inc..
 * Ira L. Ruben**,

=Photos= From left, Fred Swartz (rear), Vic Berman (front), Bill Toikka, Ira Ruben (seated), Joe Winograd ||
 * [[image:CHAOS Team circa 1972.gif width="640"]] ||
 * = CHAOS Team circa 1972 with UNIVAC 1108 Computer in [|Cinnaminson, NJ]

=See also=
 * Scotch versus Vodka - one of David Levy's bets

=External Links=
 * [|Ira Ruben | LinkedIn]
 * [|Ira L Ruben - Inventor Patent Directory]

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