Fred Popowich, a Canadian AI researcher and computer scientist with a B.Sc. from University of Alberta (1982), a M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from University of Edinburgh in 1989. Since then he is faculty member in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. While affiliated with the University of Alberta, he researched on Parallel Search and published along with Tony Marsland on their experience with their parallel chess program Parabelle based on Ken Thompson's program TinkerBelle [1] [2]. Fred Popowich further focused on natural language processing.
Fred Popowich [3]

Selected Publications

1983 ...

• Tony Marsland, Fred Popowich (1983). A Multiprocessor Tree-searching System Design. Technical Report TR 83-6, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
• Fred Popowich, Tony Marsland. (1983) Parabelle: Experience with a Parallel Chess Program. Technical Report 83-7. Computing Science Department, University of Alberta, pdf
• Tony Marsland, Fred Popowich (1985). Parallel Game-Tree Search. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 442-452. 1984 pdf (Draft)
• Tony Marsland, Fred Popowich (1985). Corrections to "Parallel Game Tree-Search". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 6
• Fred Popowich (1989). Tree Unification Grammar. ACL 1989: 228-236

1990 ...

• Nick Cercone, Paul McFetridge, Jiawei Han, Fred Popowich (1993). Human-Computer Interfaces: DBLEARN and System X. RSKD 1993: 32-43
• Fred Popowich (1996). A Chart Generator for Shake and Bake Machine Translation. Canadian Conference on AI'1996.

2000 ...

• Fred Popowich (2005). Using text mining and natural language processing for health care claims processing. SIGKDD Explorations 7(1): 59-66

External Links

• Dr. Fred Popowich
• Venture Connection - Fred Popowich
• fred popowich - Canada | LinkedIn
• Fred Popowich from Gabor Melli's Research Knowledge Base

References

1. ^ The original name for Belle was T.Belle (the US Chess Federation required an initial). TinkerBelle was the "invention" of Tony Marsland, and nothing Ken Thompson knew about or approved
2. ^ Tinker Bell from Wikipedia a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy
3. ^ Dr. Fred Popowich
4. ^ DBLP: Fred Popowich

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