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E. James Mundstock,
an American computer scientist. In the early 70s, at University of Minnesota, James Mundstock was co-author of the MNF (Minnesota Fortran) Fortran compiler for the CDC 6600 mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation ^[1].

Theorem-Proving

Along with Gary Boos, James Mundstock co-authored the early chess programs Mr. Turk and Iron Fish. Mr Turk did not use alpha-beta, but a search based on a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program as described by James R. Slagle and Philip Bursky in 1968 ^[2], and competed at ACM 1971 ^[3]. Iron Fish played the ACM 1975.

References

1. ^ The CDC 6600: Defining Supercomputing from Wikipedia
2. ^ James R. Slagle, Philip Bursky (1968). Experiments With a Multipurpose, Theorem-Proving Heuristic Program. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 1
3. ^ Ben Mittman (1971). Computer Chess Programs (Panel). pdf from The Computer History Museum

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