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a British statistician and computer pioneer. During [|World War II], Good worked with Alan Turing and [|Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander] at [|Bletchley Park], with Donald Michie and Shaun Wylie et al. in the section [|Newmanry] headed by [|Max Newman], contributing to crack the German [|Lorenz cipher]. After the war he worked at the University of Manchester and Atlas Computer Laboratory, and had a variety of defense, consulting and academic positions, until he came to the United States in 1967, becoming a University Distinguished Professor at [|Virginia Tech]. In 1965 he originated the concept of an [|intelligence explosion], now known as [|technological singularity], which anticipates the eventual advent of [|superhuman intelligence]. Jack Good died on April 5, 2009, aged 92. || toc =Photos= National Chess Club championship, a telephone match. August 20, 1955 || =Five-Year Plan= Jack Good was a strong chess player, and he published several papers related to computer chess in Michie's //Machine Intelligence// series, most notably his //Five-Year Plan for Automatic Chess// in 1968 , excerpts reprinted in David Levy's Computer Chess Compendium, covering Material, Quiescence, Turbulence, and Agitation.  =Theorem-Proving= Theorem-proving was mentioned in the //Five-Year Plan for Automatic Chess// :
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 * [[image:JackGood.jpg link="http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/va/fac/good"]] ||~  || **Irving John (Jack) Good**, (December 9, 1916 - April 5, 2009)
 * I.J. Good ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:IJGoodCheltenham.jpg link="http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/va/fac/good"]] ||
 * I. J. Good, nearest to camera - [|Cheltenham Chronicle]. Final of the

=Quotes=

Jack Good
by Jack Good, 1998 :

David Levy
David Levy in //Computer Chess Compendium// :

The Times
Excerpt from the Obituary, [|The Times]

=From Russia with Love= In 1991, Jack Good analyzed the famous position shown in the film [|From Russia with Love], [|Kronsteen] vs. MacAdams, with the motive of the position was taken from [|Spassky] versus Bronstein 1960. The difference is that MacAdams had 22...Ne6. > code [Event "URS-ch"] [Site "Leningrad"] [Date "1960.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Boris Spassky"] [Black "David Bronstein"] [Result "1-0"]
 * ~  - - - - - - ||= Kronsteen - MacAdams ||= Spassky - Bronstein ||
 * ~  || [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/4b3/5Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1%20w%20-%20-&size=medium&coord=yes&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000 caption="r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/4b3/5Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1"]] || [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/2P1b3/3P1Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1%20w%20-%20-&size=medium&coord=yes&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000 caption="r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/2P1b3/3P1Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 22"]] ||

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5 4.exd5 Bd6 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.d4 0-0 7.Bd3 Nd7 8.0-0 h6 9.Ne4 Nxd5 10.c4 Ne3 11.Bxe3 fxe3 12.c5 Be7 13.Bc2 Re8 14.Qd3 e2 15.Nd6 Nf8 16.Nxf7 exf1Q+ 17.Rxf1 Bf5 18.Qxf5 Qd7 19.Qf4 Bf6 20.N3e5 Qe7 21.Bb3 Bxe5 22.Nxe5+ Kh7 23.Qe4+ 1-0 code > media type="custom" key="24799558"
 * [|Desde Rusia con Amor], [|YouTube] Video

=See also=
 * From Codebreaking to Computing - Video from The Computer History Museum
 * HAL 9000
 * Point Value - Theoretical Attempt
 * The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing - Video

=Selected Publications=

1939

 * Jack Good (**1939**). //Mathematics and chess//. [|Eureka I]

1940 ...

 * Jack Good (**1941**) //Fourier Analysis//. Ph.D. thesis, [|University of Cambridge], advisor Godfrey Harold Hardy
 * Jack Good, Donald Michie, Geoffrey Timms (**1945**). //[|General Report on Tunny]// from [|The Turing Archive for the History of Computing]
 * Jack Good (**1946**). //[|Normal Recurring Decimals]//. [|Journal of the London Mathematical Society] 1946
 * Jack Good (**1949**). //The number of individuals in a casade process//. [|Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society], Vol. 45

1950 ...

 * Jack Good (**1950**). //Probability and the Weighing of Evidence//. Griffin, London
 * Jack Good (**1952/55**). //Notes on Randomised Chess//. [|Chess]
 * Jack Good (**1953**). //[|The population frequencies of species and the estimation of population parameters]//. [|Biometrika], Vol. 40, Nos. 3-4
 * Jack Good (**1959**). //Could a machine make probability judgments?// [|Computers and Automation], Vol. 8

1960 ...
> Jack Good, [|A. J. Mayne], John Maynard Smith (eds.) (**1962**). //[|The Scientist Speculates].// [|Heinemann]
 * Jack Good (**1962**). //Botryological speculations//. in
 * Jack Good (**1964**). //Measurement of decisions//. in [|William W. Cooper], [|Harold J. Leavitt], [|Maynard W. Shelly] (eds.) (**1964**). //New Perspectives in Organisation Research//. pp. 391-404. [|Wiley]
 * Jack Good (**1964**). //The Human Preserve//. an Invited Contribution to a Symposium on [|Extraterrestrial Life] held by the [|Institute of Biology] and the [|British Interplanetary Society], May 1964, [|Records of Royal Naval Scientific Service]
 * Jack Good (**1965**). //[|Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine]//. [|Advances in Computers, Vol. 6], [|pdf], [|pdf]
 * Jack Good (**1965**). //[|The generalization of Lagrange's expansion and the enumeration of trees]//. [|Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society], Vol. 61, No. 2
 * Jack Good (**1965**). //Logic of man and machine//. [|IPC Magazines Limited]
 * Jack Good (**1965**). //[|The Mystery of Go]//. [|Literature: Reports] hosted by Atlas Computer Laboratory
 * Jack Good (**1966**). //The probability of war//. [|Journal of the Royal Statistical Society], Series A, Vol. 129
 * Jack Good (**1967**). //Human and machine logic//. [|British Journal for the Philosophy of Science], Vol. 18
 * Jack Good, [|R.F. Churchhouse] (**1968**). //A New Conjecture Related to the Riemann Hypothesis//. in [|Some Research Applications of the Computer], Atlas Computer Laboratory
 * Jack Good (**1968**). //A Five-Year Plan for Automatic Chess//. [|Machine Intelligence Vol. 2], [|pdf]
 * Jack Good (**1969**). //Analysis of the machine chess game, J. Scott (White), ICL-1900 versus R.D. Greenblatt, PDP-10//. [|Machine Intelligence Vol. 4] pp. 267-270 » John J. Scott, ICL 1900, Richard Greenblatt, PDP-10

1970 ...

 * Jack Good (**1977**). //Dynamic Probability, Computer Chess, and the Measurement of Knowledge.// [|Machine Intelligence Vol. 8] pp. 139-150
 * Jack Good (**1978**). //[|Review of "Advances in Computer Chess, Volume 1. by M.R.B. Clarke"; University Press, 1977]//. ACM SIGART Bulletin, Issue 66 » Mike Clarke, Advances in Computer Chess 1
 * Jack Good (**1978**). //Historical Notes//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp. 80, October 1978, from  Jack Good (**1968**). //A Five-Year Plan for Automatic Chess//.
 * Jack Good (**1978**). //Historical Notes//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 27, November 1978, cont.
 * Jack Good (**1979**). //On the Grading of Chess Players//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 47
 * Jack Good (**1979**). //Rules for computer chess tournaments: an open letter to the tournament rules and organization committee of the International Computer Chess Association//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2
 * Jack Good (**1979**). //[|Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XXXVII AM Turing’s statistical work in World War II]//. [|Biometrika], Vol. 66, No. 2

1980 ...

 * Jack Good (**1982**). //When will the rules of chess be changed?// British Chess Magazine 102, No. 7 (July 1982), 305-306.
 * Jack Good (**1988**). //Some Comments Concerning an Article by De Groot.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2/3
 * Jack Good (**1988**). [|The Interface Between Statistics and Philosophy of Science]. Statistical Science, Vol. 3, No. 4

1990 ...

 * Jack Good (**1991**). //Analysis of the chess position shown in the film From Russia with Love, Kronsteen vs. MacAdams.// [|Chess Monthly], Vol. 56, No. 5
 * Jack Good (**1998**). //The first game of randomized chess played in a regular chess match.// [|Chess Monthly], Vol. 63, No. 5

2000 ...

 * Jack Good (**2000**). //[|Turing’s anticipation of emprical Bayes in connection with the cryptanalysis of the naval enigma]//. [|Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation], Vol. 66, No. 2

=External Links=
 * [|I.J. Good from Wikipedia]
 * [|Good–Turing frequency estimation from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Irving Good]
 * [|Ratio Club from Wikipedia]
 * [|I.J. Good - University Distinguished Professor Emeritus], 1967-94 from [|Virginia Tech]
 * [|Irving John (Jack) Good] from [|PEOPLE and PIONEERS] © [|J.A.N. Lee], 1998-2002.
 * [|Professor I J Good] from Atlas Computer Laboratory, hosted by [|Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)]
 * [|Professor Jack Good], [|Telegraph], April 09, 2009
 * [|Spies and Spymasters > Second World War  > Jack Good] from [|Spartacus Educational]
 * [|Chess and the Code-Breakers] by [|Edward Winter]

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