Lawrence+J.+Krakauer

an American retired electrical engineer and computer scientist with a Ph.D. in the field of Artificial Intelligence from MIT in 1970 under thesis advisor Marvin Minsky, and former vice president of [|research and development] at [|Kronos Incorporated]. During the late 60s at MIT, Krakauer contributed to the Greenblatt Chess Program aka Mac Hack VI, in developing a 2D Graphics Board for the DEC 340 display used for the main system console of the PDP-6. This constitutes likely for the first GUI of a chess program in 1968. In addition, he was an [|amateur radio] operator at the time, and brought his radio [|rig] ([|transmitter] and [|receiver]) in to the MIT labratory, which allowed Mac Hack VI to play a match against Charly, a chess program developed at the ETH Zurich by Gerald Tripard, Gerhard Rudolf and Werner Joho. Krakauer maintaines a blog with interesting strories about chess, Mac Hack IV, the PDP-6, MIT and much more. || toc =Mac Hack VI GUI= =Publications=
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 * Mac Hack VI GUI ... ||~ || ... for the DEC 340 display ||
 * Lawrence J. Krakauer (**1971**). //[|Computer Analysis of Visual Properties of Curved Objects]//. [|Project MAC], MIT, [|pdf]

=External Links= > [|Biography of Lawrence J. Krakauer] > [|Who am I?]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Lawrence Krakauer]
 * [|Home page: Lawrence J. Krakauer]
 * [|Lawrence Krakauer | LinkedIn]

Mac Hack VI

 * [|Mac Hack VI competes] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Chess stories] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|I resign] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Computer chess via ham radio] by Lawrence J. Krakauer » Mac Hack vs. Charly

PDP-6

 * [|Moby Memory] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Bits] by Lawrence J. Krakauer

Misc

 * [|Larry's memoirs and musings]
 * [|Hackers] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|The poison apple] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Poison ivy] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Eleven] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|The Kronos "Fibonacci Code"] by Lawrence J. Krakauer
 * [|Gadgets] by Lawrence J. Krakauer

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