Mark Watson, an American computer scientist, programmer, consultant and author of books on Artificial Intelligence, Java, Ruby, Common LISP, Semantic Web, NLP, C++, Linux, Scheme, and Windows. Mark Watson is avid Chess and Go player, and wrote the first commercial Go playing program, Honninbo Warrior for the Apple II in the late 1970s [1]. He also wrote the free Basic chess program, Apple distributed on their Apple II demo cassette tape [2]. Mark Watson Chess participated at the Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament in March 1978 in the class C section [3]. His artificial intelligence programming with Java textbook [4], accompanied with an associated GitHub source code repository [5], comes with a Java chess program skeleton [6] and much more AI-topics under the Apache 2.0 License or under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3 [7].
Mark Watson [8]

Selected Publications

• Mark Watson (1994). C++ Power Paradigms. McGraw-Hill, from amazon » C++, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks
• Mark Watson (2008). Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java. Third Edition, pdf ^[10] » Artificial Intelligence, Java
• Mark Watson (2009). Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing. APress 2009
• Mark Watson (2010). Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition.

External Links

• Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author
• Mark Watson - Google+
• Mark Watson · GitHub
  Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub
• Mark Watson's Blog, March 27, 2003
• why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog, September 9, 2010
• The chess games of Mark Watson from chessgames.com

References

1. ^ Mark Watson's Blog, March 27, 2003
2. ^ why doesn’t iTunes support Ogg sound files ‘out of the box’? | Mark Watson's Blog, September 9, 2010
3. ^ Larry Wagner (1978). Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
4. ^ Mark Watson (2008). Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java. Third Edition, pdf
5. ^ Java-AI-Book-Code/src at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub
6. ^ Java-AI-Book-Code/src/search/game at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub
7. ^ Java-AI-Book-Code/licenses-for-book-code at master · mark-watson/Java-AI-Book-Code · GitHub
8. ^ Mark Watson: Java, Clojure, and Ruby Consultant and Author
9. ^ Mark Watson's books on Java, Artificial Intelligence, Text Mining, Ruby, Common Lisp, Clojure, and C++
10. ^ Mark Watson · GitHub

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