Georgy Adelson-Velsky




Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский; name is sometimes transliterated as Georgii Adelson-Velskii) (8 January 1922 – 26 April 2014) was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and computer scientist.


Born in Samara, Adelson-Velsky was originally educated as a pure mathematician. His first paper, with his fellow student and eventual long-term collaborator Alexander Kronrod in 1945, won a prize from the Moscow Mathematical Society.[1] He and Kronrod were the last students of Nikolai Luzin, and he earned his doctorate in 1949 under the supervision of Israel Gelfand.[2]


He began working in artificial intelligence and other applied topics in the late 1950s.[1]
Along with Evgenii Landis, he invented the AVL tree in 1962. This was the first known balanced binary search tree data structure.[3]


Beginning in 1963, Adelson-Velsky headed the development of a computer chess program at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow. His innovations included the first use of bitboards (a now-common method for representing game positions) in computer chess.[4] The program defeated Kotok-McCarthy in the first chess match between computer programs, also in 1966,[4] and it evolved into Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion.[5]


In August 1992, Adelson-Velsky moved to Israel, and he resided in Ashdod.[1]


Adelson-Velsky died on 26 April 2014, aged 92, in his apartment in Giv'atayim, Israel.[6]



Selected publications




  • Adel'son-Vel'skiĭ, G. M.; Kronrod, A. S. (1945), "On a direct proof of the analyticity of a monogenic function", Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (N.S.), 50: 7–9, MR 0051912.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.


  • Adel'son-Vel'skiĭ, G. M.; Landis, E. M. (1962), "An algorithm for organization of information", Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 146: 263–266, MR 0156719.


  • Adel'son-Vel'skiĭ, G. M.; Arlazarov, V. L.; Bitman, A. R.; Životovskiĭ, A. A.; Uskov, A. V. (1970), "On programming a computer for playing chess", Akademiya Nauk SSSR i Moskovskoe Matematicheskoe Obshchestvo, 25 (2 (152)): 221–260, MR 0261965. Translated as "Programming a computer to play chess", Russian Mathematical Surveys 25: 221–262, 1970, doi:10.1070/RM1970v025n02ABEH003792



References





  1. ^ abc Autobiography (in Russian) – from Ashdod municipal web page.


  2. ^ Georgiy Maksimovich Adelson-Velsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


  3. ^ Kent, Allen; Williams, James G. (1993), Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 28 - Supplement 13: AerosPate Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Tree Structures, CRC Press, p. 373, ISBN 9780824722814.


  4. ^ ab Levy, David N. L. (1988), Computer Chess Compendium, Springer-Verlag, pp. 56, 82, ISBN 9780387913315.


  5. ^ Hayes, Jean E.; Levy, David N. L. (1976), The world computer chess championship, Stockholm 1974, University Press, ISBN 9780852242858. On page 50, G. M. Adelson-Velskii is listed as one of Kaissa's authors.


  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2014-06-07.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)




External links




  • Не очень серьёзно о цифровых технологиях (in Russian), including an account of a visit to Toronto by Adelson, Mikhail Donskoy, Radio Liberty, December 31, 2002


  • [1] from http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com


  • 1990 Moscow Interview with Adelson-Velsky, Eugene Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell University Library (in Russian, English transcript).


  • [2] (In Russian, List of publication translated into English).


  • Author profile in the database zbMATH









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