Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, born in Moscow in 1921. He is known in mathematics for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formula, published in 1964, and in computing he led a Soviet program in artificial intelligence and computer chess at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, mentoring researchers including Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Vladimir Arlazarov. He also worked on early Soviet computational economics, including price-formation calculations, and spent his later career developing medical treatments for cancer patients. He died in Moscow in 1986.
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What part did Aleksandr Kronrod play in early Soviet computer chess?
He led the team behind a Soviet chess program, built by his colleagues, that beat Stanford's program 3 to 1.
Kronrod is believed to be one of the first scientists to work in artificial intelligence. MacTutor reports that he created a team of mathematicians and physicists to develop it. The team first tried a program for the Russian card game Durak, then turned to chess. The chess program was developed by Adelson-Velsky, Arlazarov, Bitman and Uskov, and Kronrod helped whenever the team struggled with recursion issues. In a match with the Stanford team led by John McCarthy, his team's program won by a score of 3 to 1.
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Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod (Russian: Александр Семёнович Кронрод; October 22, 1921 - October 6, 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964.
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