Bruce Wilcox

Bruce Wilcox is back on the net at http://webpages.charter.net/suewilcox/ (brucewilcox at bigfoot.com)

BruceWilcox and his wife, SueWilcox?, wrote EzGo. That does nothing to sum them up at all.

BruceWilcox is a damned smart guy. I had the pleasure of talking with him on news:comp.ai.games and collaborating with him (and others) on a book on artificial intelligence in games (unfortunately, it never shipped).

This is how he described himself to the "team" in June, '96:

: I am a pioneer in the field of Computer Go, having written a series of commercial Go programs during a 20 year period. I spent a couple of years as a department manager at Bolt, Beranek and Newman labs in Applied Real-Time Vehicular AI, where I worked on a tank platoon ambush advisor and the Pilot's Associate demo programs. I currently work as a cross-project AI resource for The 3DO Company.

-- SunirShah

More news: It appears Bruce headed off to Japan to build the ultimate Go game. But, according to my source, that news is two years stale (Dec '99). He was missing at GDC this year. -- SunirShah

In the world of the GameOfGo, Bruce is known as an iconoclast who, through the love of a fighting style of play, popularized perhaps the first wholly original fuseki (like a chess opening) seen in Go in centuries, called "The Great Wall". See http://senseis.xmp.net/?GreatWall for details.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?ReflectionsOnRiscIgoByBruceWilcox is also worth a read for the in depth design of one of his earlier Go programs.

Bruce is a computer Go pioneer. He wrote the first Go program for sale to the public: Nemesis. His latest program is called Ego, with a demo version called Ez-Go. His EzGo theories originate from his Go programming experiences.

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