Steve W. Otto, an American computer scientist and chess programmer. While during the 80s affiliated with California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, Otto researched on parallel algorithms for nCUBE concurrent computers. Along with Ed Felten, Rod Morison and Rob Fatland, Steve Otto is co-author of the massive parallel chess program Waycool, which played three ACM North American Computer Chess Championships, the ACM 1986, ACM 1987 and ACM 1988, as well the WCCC 1989 [1] .
Steve Otto [2]

Selected Publications

• Ed Felten, Steve Otto (1988). Chess on a Hypercube. The Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, Vol. II-Applications
• Ed Felten, Steve Otto (1988). A Highly Parallel Chess Program. Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems
• Ed Felten, Steve Otto (1989). Coherent parallel C. Proceedings of the third conference on Hypercube concurrent computers and applications
• Steve Otto, Ed Felten (1995). Dynamic tree searching in Gary W. Sabot High performance computing: problem solving with parallel and vector architectures, ISBN:0-201-59830-2, amazon.com

External Links

• Steve Otto's ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ Waycool's ICGA Tournaments
2. ^ Cartoon by Jeff Ragsdale from Kings Move - Welcome to the 1989 AGT World Computer Chess Championship. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Courtesy of Peter Jennings from The Computer History Museum, pdf

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