Carl Ebeling
Carl Ebeling | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carnegie-Mellon University |
| Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, professor |
Carl Ebeling is an American computer scientist and professor. His recent interests include coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures of integrated circuits.
Education and career
He earned his B.S. Degree in physics from Wheaton College in 1971.[1] He earned MS from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1976).[1][2]
Under Bob Sproull,[1] he earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University (1986).[2] From 1986 to 1988,[3] he was a member of the team which created the chess machine HiTech. HiTech was the highest ranked chess machine for some time in mid-1980s until it was surpassed by Deep Blue.[4] Ebeling wrote All The Right Moves – A VLSI Architecture for Chess, a book published through The MIT Press, in 1987. A review by Don Beal of London University called it "well written and easy to read," and accessible to a wide audience despite the technical subject.[5]
In 1986 he joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington, becoming a full professor since 1997.[2] He was chairman of the 1997 proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, titled the FPGA97: 1997 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays when published in February of that year.[6] In 2010, he was in the program committee of the 2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Technology.[7] From 2011 to 2012, he was with the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.[1] In late 2012, he left his academic position for a position at Altera.[2]
Among his projects are Gemini and Gemini2, open source programs for graph isomorphism used for netlist comparison in layout versus schematic IC verification.[8]
Awards
Ebeling's Ph.D. thesis All the Right Moves: A VLSI Architecture for Chess earned him the 1986 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.[9][10] The American Association for Artificial Intelligence awarded Ebeling the Pioneer in Computer Chess award in 1989. His work on HiTech was recognized with the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1997.
In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[11][10]
Personal life
He met his wife Lynne while in the Peace Corps in Liberia, and for some years traveled with his family.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Carl Ebeling". Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
- ^ a b c d Ebeling's CV
- ^ Bill, Rick (1985). "Picture: Hans Berliner (Left) and Carl Ebeling - Developers of the HiTech Computer Chess System at Carnegie Mellon University". Computer History Museum. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
The chess-playing computer Hitech was designed from 1986 to 1988 by student Carl Ebeling (r) under Professor and Senior Master Hans Berliner (l) at Carnegie Mellon University. Hitech's custom hardware could analyze 200,000 moves per second and was the first computer to be rated over 2400.
- ^ Carl Ebeling's brief
- ^ Ebeling, Carl (1987). "All The Right Moves – A VLSI Architecture for Chess". The Knowledge Engineering Review. 3 (1). The MIT Press / Cambridge University Press: 94–95. doi:10.1017/S0269888900004409.
- ^ "FPGA '97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM fifth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays". Association for Computing Machinery. February 9, 1997. doi:10.1145/258305. ISBN 0-89791-801-0. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
- ^ "2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Technology". ee.cityu.edu.hk. FPT. 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
- ^ Gemini home page
- ^ "1986 ACM doctoral dissertation award". Archived from the original on 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ^ a b "Carl Ebeling". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
- ^ "About ACM Fellows".
