Charles W. (Chuck) Niessen, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and retired researcher and associate head, Communications and Information Technology Division at Lincoln Laboratory [1] at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2] [3]. In the early 60s, already at MIT, Charles Niessen was member of the "the chess group" supervised by John McCarthy, along with Alan Kotok, Elwyn Berlekamp (1960), Michael Lieberman and Robert A. Wagner. They wrote the chess program for the IBM 7090 [4], which later evolved to the Kotok-McCarthy-Chess Program.
Charles Niessen [5]

External Links

• Publications by Charles Niessen - Department of Defense Reports
• MIT Retiree Information - 2005 Summer Picnic - Page 2
• MIT Retiree Information - 2005 Summer Picnic - Page 4

References

1. ^ Site: Lincoln Laboratory
2. ^ MIT Reports to the President 2004–2005 (pdf)
3. ^ Alan Kotok from The Computer History Museum, see Oral History
4. ^ Alan Kotok (1962). Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program
5. ^ MIT Retiree Information - 2005 Summer Picnic - Page 2

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