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'''Eric Jensen''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and president of ''Jensen Research Corporation'' <ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0172659D:US-jensen-research-corp Jensen Research Corp: Company Profile - Bloomberg]</ref>, a system software development company specializing in high-performance utilities and programming productivity aids for users of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z IBM System z] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer mainframe computers].
=Checkers=
As graduate student at the [[Duke University]] in the 70s, Jensen was early [[Checkers]] and chess programmer. The ''Duke program'' was a Checkers player written along with his fellow [[Tom Truscott]] and advisor [[Alan Biermann]], which defeated [[Arthur Samuel|Samuel's]] program in a 2-game match <ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19770512&id=hr4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4778,1673986 The Lewiston Daily Sun - Google News Archive], May 12, 1977</ref> <ref>[http://www.fierz.ch/history.htm A brief history of computer checkers] by [[Martin Fierz]]</ref> <ref>[http://checkersbackground.com/samuel-s-and-the.html Samuel's and The Duke Checkers Programs]</ref>.
=Duchess=
Along with Tom Truscott and [[Bruce Wright]], Eric Jensen is co-author of the chess program [[Duchess]], which competed at [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM North American Computer Chess Championships]] from 1974 to 1979 and 1981, and the 2nd and 3rd [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in [[WCCC 1977|Toronto 1977]] and [[WCCC 1980|Linz 1980]]. In May 2005, Eric Jensen kindly supplied an AWS image of the Duchess distribution tape and a job stream for installing Duchess on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS MVS 3.8.], which can be downloaded from ''Prycroft Six'' <ref>[http://www.prycroft6.com.au/vs2sw/index.html#duchess MVS 3.8J Software - Duchess 6.12.03] (1981-02-15)</ref>.
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=437 Eric Jensen's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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'''Eric Jensen''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and president of ''Jensen Research Corporation'' <ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0172659D:US-jensen-research-corp Jensen Research Corp: Company Profile - Bloomberg]</ref>, a system software development company specializing in high-performance utilities and programming productivity aids for users of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z IBM System z] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer mainframe computers].
=Checkers=
As graduate student at the [[Duke University]] in the 70s, Jensen was early [[Checkers]] and chess programmer. The ''Duke program'' was a Checkers player written along with his fellow [[Tom Truscott]] and advisor [[Alan Biermann]], which defeated [[Arthur Samuel|Samuel's]] program in a 2-game match <ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19770512&id=hr4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4778,1673986 The Lewiston Daily Sun - Google News Archive], May 12, 1977</ref> <ref>[http://www.fierz.ch/history.htm A brief history of computer checkers] by [[Martin Fierz]]</ref> <ref>[http://checkersbackground.com/samuel-s-and-the.html Samuel's and The Duke Checkers Programs]</ref>.
=Duchess=
Along with Tom Truscott and [[Bruce Wright]], Eric Jensen is co-author of the chess program [[Duchess]], which competed at [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM North American Computer Chess Championships]] from 1974 to 1979 and 1981, and the 2nd and 3rd [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in [[WCCC 1977|Toronto 1977]] and [[WCCC 1980|Linz 1980]]. In May 2005, Eric Jensen kindly supplied an AWS image of the Duchess distribution tape and a job stream for installing Duchess on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS MVS 3.8.], which can be downloaded from ''Prycroft Six'' <ref>[http://www.prycroft6.com.au/vs2sw/index.html#duchess MVS 3.8J Software - Duchess 6.12.03] (1981-02-15)</ref>.
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=437 Eric Jensen's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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