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a British computer scientist and [|Chief technology officer] of //Virtual-Mirrors Ltd.// [|Glasgow], [|Scotland], who has been responsible for developing new technologies in the emerging field of 3-D [|tailoring], whereby complex [|garments] can be made to measure for [|body-scanned] customers, and displayed in a realistic manner.
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 * [[image:tim-niblett.jpg link="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.niblett/index.html"]] ||~  || **Timothy (Tim) Niblett**,

Tim Niblett made his Ph.D with the thesis title //Validation of Machine-Oriented Strategies in Chess Endgames// at University of Edinburgh in 1982 under the supervision of Donald Michie. || toc =Decision Trees= As student of Donald Michie at Department of Machine Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, he researched on [|Decision tree] algorithms and [|Decision tree learning] applied to chess. Tim Niblett and Alen Shapiro, another of Michie's students, adopted Ross Quinlan's [|Iterative Dichotomiser 3] (ID3) algorithm for processing complex data for other employment at the chessboard, while they overcame its disadvantage that it yielded massively unwieldy and incomprehensible decision-rules with //structured induction//, an interactive regime for generating machine-executable decision rules and configuring them into transparent concept-hierarchies. Niblett and Shapiro tested ID3 on the endgame of KPK, and found that decision trees generated by the algorithm 100% accurate.
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=Chess Endgames= Quote by Maarten van Emden in //I remember Donald Michie// :

=Selected Publications=
 * Ivan Bratko, Tim Niblett (**1979**). //Conjectures and Refutations in a Framework for Chess Endgames//. in Expert Systems in the Micro-Electronic Age (Donald Michie, ed.), Edinburgh University Press
 * Danny Kopec, Tim Niblett (**1980**). //How Hard is the Play of the King-Rook-King-Knight Ending?// Advances in Computer Chess 2
 * Alen Shapiro, Tim Niblett (**1982**). //Automatic Induction of Classification Rules for Chess End game.// Advances in Computer Chess 3
 * Tim Niblett (**1982**). //Validation of Machine-Oriented Strategies in Chess Endgames//. Ph.D thesis, University of Edinburgh
 * Tim Niblett, Ivan Bratko (**1987**). //Learning decision rules in noisy domains,// in Research and Development in Expert Systems III (Max Bramer, ed.), pp. 25-34, Cambridge University Press.

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