Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the Zobrist Hashing.Albert Zobrist (1970), A New Hashing Method with Application for Game Playing. Technical Report #88, Computer Science Department, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Reprinted (1990) in ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2 He also authored the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin. Also published as a technical report
Education Albert Zobrist received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and a Masters in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970.
Computer chess While affiliated with the University of Southern California and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Zobrist researched computer chess. With Frederic Roy Carlson and Charles Kalme, he co-authored the chess programs USC CP and Tyro,Albert Zobrist, Frederic Roy Carlson (1973). The USC chess program. Proceedings of the ACM annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia which participated at the ACM North American Computer Chess Championships (NACCC) in 1977.A Memorial to BRUTE FORCE by Louis Kessler
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