The Fruitfly on the Fly¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: McCarthy, John

Affiliations: Stanford University USA

Note: [1] This is a condensed version of an invited presentation, delivered on May 31, 1989 to the Conference of the Canadian Information Processing Society on its meeting on May 29 to June 2, 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Editors gratefully acknowledge permission from CIPS to publish this version and thank Professor McCarthy for scrutinizing their rendition. The CIPS meeting was a climax of and a postlude to the Sixth World Computer-Chess Championship, played in the same location during May 28-31, 1989, generously sponsored by AGT (Alberta Government Telephones). More details about the tournament are to be found in ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2. Note from McCarthy: I thank the editors for writing up their notes. The present version contains some ideas inspired by their notes that weren’t in the oral presentation. I also appreciate their lively style. I would have revised the presentation further if there had been time, but I hope some of the ideas will be useful anyway.

DOI: 10.3233/ICG-1989-12402

Journal: ICGA Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 199-206, 1989