- since October 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow in
Supercomputing Technologies Group
at the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- June 1999: participant of the 9th World
Computer-Chess Championship
with
own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 4.5 points out of 7 games
(3x win, 3x draw, 1x loss), thus finishing on shared 5th place as 6th of
30 participants (microcomputer vice champion and best microcomputer
amateur overall, see below)
- June 1999: participant of the 16th World Microcomputer-Chess
Championship with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 4.5 points out of
7 games (3x win, 3x draw, 1x loss), thus finishing on shared 2nd place as vice
champion of the 22 microcomputer participants of the 9th World
Computer-Chess Championship
(best
amateur of the microcomputer category)
- 1995-1999: aquisition of various donations and travel grants
for computer-chess group (see
<http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/node1.html> for more details)
- 1997-1998: aquisition and execution of Digital Equipment
Corp. research contract DE-0032-97 entitled ``Optimization and Fine-Tuning of
a Sophisticated Tree-Searching Application for 64-bit Alpha CPUs''
- October 1997: participant of the 15th World Microcomputer-Chess
Championship with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 7.0 points out
of 11 games (5x win, 4x draw, 2x loss), thus finishing on shared 4th place as
6th of 34 participants in the main tournament (best European amateur) and on
shared 7th place in the speed chess event
- April 1997: participant of the 12th AEGON Man vs. Machine
Computer-Chess Tournament with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored
3.5 points out of 6 games (2x win, 3x draw, 1x loss) against very strong humans
- October 1996: participant of the 14th World Microcomputer-Chess
Championship with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 6.5 points out
of 11 games (5x win, 3x draw, 3x loss), thus finishing on shared 6th place as
7th of 27 participants in the main tournament and on shared 3rd place in the
speed-chess event
- April 1996: participant of the 11th AEGON Man vs. Machine
Computer-Chess Tournament with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored
3.5 points out of 6 games (2x win, 3x draw, 1x loss) against strong humans
- 1992-1996: scientific staff member of a neuro-computing project
financed by the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg (duties included
team research, project demonstration, fund raising, and organization)
- 1992-1996: research assistant at the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD),
Programming Systems Group
(Prof. Tichy), School of CS, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (beside team research, duties included
fund raising as well as supervision of practical courses, seminars, and theses)
- 1992-1996: owner of small computer company (HW and SW
development)
- October 1995: participant of the 13th World Microcomputer-Chess
Championship with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 7.0 points out
of 11 games (6x win, 2x draw, 3x loss) and finished on shared 6th place as
7th of 34 participants (best European amateur, best German overall)
- May 1995: participant of the 8th World Computer-Chess
Championship with own chess program DARKTHOUGHT that scored 2.0 points out
of 5 games (2x win, 3x loss) and finished on shared 14th place as 14th of 24
participants
- September 1994: research visit at PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden
- June 1993: founder of IPD's computer-chess group
- 1991-1992: design and implementation tasks (Modula-2*) as a
student within the ``Triton'' research project
at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1988-1990: programming tasks (C, Prolog, WAM) as a student
within the ``KA-Prolog'' research project at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1988-1991: author of several programming books in German
- 1987-1991: commercial software development (Modula-2)
for Swiss company A+L AG
- 1986-1987: various administrative and bureau appointments
during military service
- 1984-1988: author of technical articles in German computer
periodicals
Created by Ernst A. Heinz, Tue Jan 30 14:53:38 EST 2001