Feng-hsiung Hsu

Architect and principal designer of IBM Deep Blue, the chess machine that defeated the World Chess Champion in 1997, Hsu is a computer scientist and author of <em>Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion</em>. His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought Chess Machine, which led to the first chess playing computer to defeat Grandmasters in tournament play and the first to achieve a certified Grandmaster level rating.
Hsu has received the 1990 Mephisto Award for his doctoral dissertation and the 1991 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions in architecture and algorithms for chess machines.