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an American mathemantician and computer scientist, since the 50s affiliated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in 1961 on [|Boolean algebra] under advisor Derrick H. Lehmer, and the [|New Mexico State University].
 * Mark Brimhall Wells**,

=MANIAC= During the 50s, at Los Alamos National Laboratory around Stanislaw Ulam, Paul Stein and John Pasta, Mark Wells was involved in the development of the chess-playing program to play [|Los Alamos chess] with the [|MANIAC I]. Mark Wells further launched the development of the MADCAP, a high-level programming language and compiler, which was a critical development because it provided a convenient way to communicate with the MANIAC.

=Selected Publications=

1957 ...

 * James Kister, Paul Stein, Stanislaw Ulam, William Walden, Mark Wells (**1957**). //[|Experiments in Chess]//. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 2

1960 ...

 * Mark B. Wells (**1961**). //Simplification of Normal Form Expressions for Boolean Functions of Many Variables//. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, advisor Derrick H. Lehmer
 * Mark B. Wells (**1961**). //[|MADCAP: a scientific compiler for a displayed formula textbook language]//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 4, No. 1
 * Mark B. Wells (**1962**). //Application of a Finite Set Covering Theorem to the Simplification of Boolean Function Expressions//. [|IFIP Congress]

1970 ...

 * Mark B. Wells (**1971**). //[|Elements of Combinatorial Computing]//. [|Elsevier], ISBN-13: 978-0080160917
 * Mark B. Wells (**1972**). //[|A Review of Two-dimensional Programming Languages]//. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 7, No. 10
 * Mark B. Wells (**1977**). //[|Implementation and application of a function data type]//. [|AFIPS '77]
 * [|David K. Kahaner], Mark B. Wells (**1979**). //[|An Experimental Algorithm for N-Dimensional Adaptive Quadrature]//. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 5, No. 1

1980 ...

 * [|Rollo Silver], Mark Wells, [|Shaun-Inn Wu], [|Margaret A. Hug] (**1986**). //[|A concurrent N ≤ 8 Queens' algorithm using Modcap]//. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 21, No. 9

1990 ...

 * Mark B. Wells (**1990**). //[|Identifiers and static name abstraction]//. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 25, No. 5

=External Links=
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Mark Wells]
 * [|LANL: The Rest of the Story] by [|Roger Snodgrass], Los Alamos Monitor Editor, July 16, 2008

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