Hans Berliner
Hans Berliner · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1929, Berlin, Germany — 2017, Riviera Beach, Florida, United States
Germany · United States
Hans Berliner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist
Berliner was an American computer scientist and chess grandmaster, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was a pioneer of computer chess and artificial intelligence. He won the World Correspondence Chess Championship and directed the construction of HiTech, among the first chess machines to reach senior-master strength and to defeat a grandmaster. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, he emigrated with them to the United States in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution.
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Computer & information scientist
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