L.+Stephen+Coles

an American electrical engineer, mathematician, AI-researcher, [|doctor of medicine], [|gerontologist], [|biomedical scientist], co-founder and director of the [|Gerontology Research Group], lecturer with the [|University of California, Los Angeles] Molecular Biology Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and a research collaborator in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the [|David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA]. He is researcher on [|supercentenarians] and [|aging], and creator of //The Bridge Plan//, containing [|nutrition] and [|lifestyle] recommendations that are believed to help maximize [|life expectancy], to possibly bridge the gap until a hoped-for biomedical [|singularity event]. || toc =Biography= L. Stephen Coles holds a B.Sc. in [|electrical engineering] from [|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute] in [|Troy, New York], a M.Sc. in mathematics from the [|Carnegie Institute of Technology], and a Ph.D. in [|systems] and [|communication] sciences from Carnegie Mellon University in 1969 on [|Natural language processing]. He researched on artificial intelligence, robots and [|biorobotics] at [|Stanford Research Institute] and the University of California, Berkeley, focused on [|medicine] at the [|Stanford University School of Medicine] and completed his [|medical intern] in [|obstetrics] and [|gynaecology] at the [|Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine] at [|University of Miami], and served as lecturer and visiting scholar and researcher at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University and UCLA.
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=Computer Chess= While affiliated with Carnegie Tech, researching on AI, Steve Coles became interested in computer chess. He shared his sobering experience to lose a game of chess from Mac Hack VI in April 1967 with Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, expressing his concerns on the development of computer chess at Carnegie Tech with their [|time-sharing] system of the dual processor [|CDC G-21], and mentioning programmers George Baylor and Joseph S. Rubenfeld and others working on chess programs. During the early 70s, Steve Coles published several articles, reports and notes on computer chess in ACM SIGART Bulletin.

=The Drosophila of AI= In his 1994 article //Computer Chess: The Drosophila of AI//, posted 2002 in [|Dr. Dobbs] , he produced a figure and calculated a roughly forty-point per year growth rate in best computer Elo ratings since 1960. Mentioned chess programs of the computer chart are NSS, MacHack, Chess 4.x, Belle, HiTech, Deep Thought and Deep Blue, the intersection point with the human chart estimated in about 1997.


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 * Fifty years of human and computer chess ||

=Selected Publications=

1967 ...

 * Steve Coles (**1967**). //Memorandum - Chess at Carnegie Tech//. [|pdf]
 * L. Stephen Coles (**1967**). //[|Syntax Directed Interpretation of Natural Language]//. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, also in Herbert Simon, Laurent Siklóssy (eds.) (**1972**). //Representation and Meaning: Experiments with Information Processing Systems//. [|Prentice-Hall]
 * L. Stephen Coles (**1969**). //Talking with a Robot in English//. 1. IJCAI 1969, [|pdf]
 * Alan H. Bond, [|Jerry Rightnour], L. Steven Coles (**1969**). //An Interactive Graphical Display Monitor in a Batch-processing Environment with Remote Entry//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 12, No. 11, [|pdf]

1970 ...

 * Steve Coles (**1973**). //[|Computer to Model Nervous System of Lobster at Carnegie-Mellon]//. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 38
 * Steve Coles (**1973**). //[|Fourth United States computer chess championship from ACM73 news release]//. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 41
 * [|Oscar Firschein], [|Martin A. Fischler], L. Stephen Coles, [|Jay M. Tenenbaum] (**1973**). //[|Forecasting and Assessing the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Society]//. 3. IJCAI, [|Stanford, California], [|pdf]
 * [|Michael H. Smith], L. Stephen Coles (**1973**). //Design of a Low Cost, General Purpose Robot//. 3. IJCAI, [|Stanford, California], [|pdf]

1990 ...

 * L. Stephen Coles (**1994**). //Computer Chess: The Drosophila of AI//. AI Expert, Vol. 9, No. 4, [|Miller Freeman, Inc.], [|posted October 30, 2002] in [|Dr. Dobbs]

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 * [|Computer Chess: The Drosophila of AI] by L. Stephen Coles, October 30, 2002, [|Dr. Dobbs], republished 1994 article
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 * [|Gerontology Research Group Index Page]
 * [|AMMG Presents 2008 Alan P. Mintz Award to L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D.]
 * [|Interview with L. Stephen Coles, MD, PhD] by [|Vicki Glaser], [|Rejuvenation Research], June 2013, Vol. 16, No. 3
 * [|Bridge Plan] | Dr. Coles on Chess vs. Checkers, [|YouTube] Video

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