Ben+Mittman

an American photographer, computer scientist, retired professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at Northwestern University, and former director of //Northwestern's Vogelback Computing Center//. In 1970 Ben Mittman and Monty Newborn initiated, constituted and organized the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship, and together with Monty Newborn and David Levy, the World Computer Chess Championship in 1974. Mittman was co-founder of the ICCA in 1977 and served as its first president, as well as editor of the ICCA Newsletter until 1983. || toc =Photos= [|Sam Matsa] and David Slate. Larry Atkin looks on. ACM 1970. || Monty Newborn, Tony Marsland, Dave Slate, David Levy, Claude Shannon, Ken Thompson, Betty Shannon, Tom Truscott ||
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 * [[image:BM.jpg link="http://benmittman.com/Site/About_the_Photographer.html"]] ||~  || **Benjamin (Ben) Mittman**,
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 * [[image:Newborn_Matsa_Slate_Atkin_Mittman.ACM_1970-2.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbda5f95"]] ||
 * Tournament organizers Monty Newborn and Ben Mittman (front) with ACM president
 * [[image:Mittman.ACM_1971.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe13911"]] ||
 * Mittman at 2nd ACM North American Computer Chess Championship ||
 * [[image:Chess_Pioneers_Mittman_Newborn_Marsland_Slate_Levy_Shannon_Thompson_Truscott.c1980.102665753.lg.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753"]] ||
 * Chess pioneers in [|Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: Ben Mittman,
 * [[image:Chess_Pioneers_Mittman_Newborn_Marsland_Slate_Levy_Shannon_Thompson_Truscott.c1980.102665753.lg.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753"]] ||
 * Chess pioneers in [|Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: Ben Mittman,
 * [[image:Claude_Shannon_with_Ben_Mittman_and_knives.102665756.lg.jpg width="560" link="http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/Mittman-Benjamin/Claude_Shannon_with_Ben_Mittman_and_knives.102665756.lg.jpg"]] ||
 * Ben Mittman and Claude Shannon, [|Swiss Army knifes] ||
 * [[image:Valvo_Mitman_Newborn_Thompson_Hyatt.Dallas.1982.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdcd092"]] ||
 * Mittman, Newborn, Thompson and Hyatt (right) at ACM 1982 in Dallas, Texas, 1982 ||
 * [[image:Valvo_Mitman_Newborn_Thompson_Hyatt.Dallas.1982.jpg width="560" link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbdcd092"]] ||
 * Mittman, Newborn, Thompson and Hyatt (right) at ACM 1982 in Dallas, Texas, 1982 ||

=Quotes=

Restoration of Pont Neuf
Quote from //[|The Pont Neuf] - Appendix/Biography// :

Jim Schuyler
Quote by [|"Sky" Jim Schuyler] September 24, 2007 :

Jaap van den Herik
Quote by Jaap van den Herik, 2007 :

David Levy
David Levy on Ben Mittman's photo exhibition in [|Paris], November 23rd, 2007 :

=Selected Publications=
 * Ben Mittman (**1971**). //Computer Chess Programs (Panel)//. [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum » ACM 1971
 * Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn (**1973**). //[|Results of the fourth annual U.S. computer chess tournament]//. ACM SIGART Bulletin, No. 42 » ACM 1973
 * Ben Mittman (**1977**). //A Brief History of Computer Chess Tournaments: 1970-1975//. Chess Skill in Man and Machine (Ed. Peter W. Frey), pp. 1-33.
 * David Slate, Ben Mittman (**1978**). //Chess 4.6 - Where Do We Go From Here?// [|Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology 1978] 193-198 » Chess 4.6
 * Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (**1980**). //Computer chess at ACM 79: the tournament and the man vs. man and machine match//. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 23, Issue 1, [|pdf] from The Computer History Museum » ACM 1979
 * Ben Mittman (**1980**). //$100,000 Prize Established//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1
 * Ben Mittman (**1980**). //3rd World Computer Chess Championship//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, Special Issue » WCCC 1980
 * David Levy, Ben Mittman, Monroe Newborn (**1980**). //3rd World Computer Chess Championship//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3 » WCCC 1980
 * Ben Mittman (**1980**). //The Eleventh ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship//. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 3, No. 3 » ACM 1980
 * Ben Mittman (**1981**). //[|Dr. Edward Lasker], 1885-1981//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1
 * Ben Mittman, Ken Thompson (**1981**). //Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2 » WMCCC 1981
 * Ben Mittman (**1981**). //Second World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Travemünde and Hamburg, West Germany - Opening Address//. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2
 * Ben Mittman (**1981**). //Twelfth ACM North American Computer Chess Championship//. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 4, No. 3 » ACM 1981
 * Ben Mittman, Tony Marsland, Monroe Newborn, Kathe Spracklen, Ken Thompson (**1981**). //[|Computer chess: Master level play in 1981?]// ACM 81: Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference
 * Ben Mittman (**1983**). //ACM's Thirteenth North American Computer Chess Championship//. ICCA Newletter, Vol. 6, No. 1 » ACM 1982
 * Ben Mittman (**1983**). //Computer chess panel.// ACM 83: Proceedings of the 1983 annual conference on Computers : Extending the human resource
 * Ben Mittman, László Lindner (**1983**). //Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4 » WMCCC 1983
 * Ben Mittman, László Lindner (**1984**). //Third World Microcomputer Chess Championship// (continued). ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1
 * Ben Mittman (**1989**). //Deep Preparation//. ICCA Journal, Vol 12., No. 4 » ACM 1989
 * Ben Mittman (**2001**). //[|OBITUARY CLAUDE SHANNON (1916 – 2001): PERSONAL MEMORIES]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2

=External Links=
 * [|Faces & Places: Photographs by Ben Mittman]
 * [|Search Mittman] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|archive.computerhistory.org - /resources/still-image/Mittman-Benjamin] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|Media Page: B. Mittman]

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