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Ren Wu,
a Chinese American computer scientist and former Chinese chess and chess programmer. He is researcher in the Hewlett Packard Intelligent Information Management Lab in Palo Alto, California ^[1], focused on enabling near real-time business intelligence with robust, scalable data management, data-intensive analytics and fusion of structured and unstructured information ^[2], GPU computing, and massively parallel algorithms ^[3].

Programs

Ren Wu's Chinese and Western chess programs were Surprise, two times Chinese chess Gold Medal winner at the 3rd and 4th Computer Olympiad, and the chess program Initiative which did not compete in ICCA tournaments ^{[4] [5]}. According to Chris Whittington the chess software for the Psion 3a PDA was written by Ren Wu ^[6].

ICGA Journal Award

Along with Don Beal, Ren Wu researched and published on Retrograde Analysis for Chinese Chess Endgame Tablebases, and won the 2002 ICGA Journal Award ^[7].

Selected Publications

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• Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Computer Analysis of some Chinese Chess Endgames. Advances in Computer Games 9
• Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms.ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3 ^{[10] [11]}
• Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Parallel Retrograde Analysis on Different Architectures. IEEE 10th Conference in High Performance Distributed Computing pp. 356-362, August 2001
• Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Solving Chinese Chess Endgames by Database Construction. Information Sciences, Vol. 135, Nos. 3-4, pp. 207-228. ISSN 0020-0255.
• Ren Wu, Don Beal (2002). A memory efficient retrograde algorithm and its application to solve Chinese Chess endgames. More Games of No Chance edited by Richard J. Nowakowski
• Ren Wu, Bin Zhang, Meichun Hsu (2009). Clustering billions of data points using GPUs. ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

Forum Posts

• Is it worth to program chess in Pascal ? (Re: My first Chess program !) by Ren Wu, rgcc, September 22, 1997 » Pascal
• Re: Let's analyze move 36 by Ren Wu, CCC, October 08, 1997
• Re: Bionic v Crafty - a possible solution by Ren Wu, CCC, January 25, 1999 » Bionic Impakt, Crafty
• Machine vs. IGM in Chinese Chess by Ren Wu, CCC, July 13, 1999
• Generating egtbs ICGAJ by Tony Werten, CCC, December 04, 2001 ^{[12] [13]}
  Wu/Beal predates Koistinen by Guy Haworth, CCC, December 04, 2001
  Re: Wu/Beal predates Koistinen by Ren Wu, CCC, December 04, 2001

External Links

• Ren Wu's ICGA Tournaments
• Ren Wu, HP Labs
• Ren Wu at Hewlett Packard Labs - The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

References

1. ^ Intelligent Information Management Lab at HP Labs
2. ^ Ren Wu, HP Labs
3. ^ Ren Wu at Hewlett Packard Labs - The Computing Innovation Fellows Project
4. ^ WMCCC Jakarta by Chris Whittington, post 5, rgcc, August 7, 1996
5. ^ Re: Fritz5 ECM test suite results post 7 by Ren Wu, rgcc, September 6, 1997
6. ^ Re: Chess software for psion post 5 by Chris Whittington, rgcc, April 18, 1996
7. ^ Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3
8. ^ DBLP: Ren Wu
9. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
10. ^ Generating egtbs ICGAJ by Tony Werten, CCC, December 04, 2001, with reference to Computing endgames with few men by Urban Koistinen
11. ^ Wu / Beal retrograde analisys algorithm by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, Winboard Forum, March 10, 2007
12. ^ Ren Wu, Don Beal (2001). Fast, Memory-efficient Retrograde Algorithms.ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3
13. ^ Computing endgames with few men by Urban Koistinen

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