with Man vs. Machine Chess Match

*Socrates won the game in 56 moves--see story.

Friday, March 24, 1995
9:30am-5:00pm

Late Registration

(It is past the May 17th deadline. You may continue to register, but we cannot guarantee a place for you at lunch. )

Sponsored by the Computer Science Department
at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Support for the 12th Maryland Theory Day was provided by the National Security Agency under a grant from the Mathematical Sciences Program. Support for the Man vs. Machine Match was provided in part by The Intel Corporation.

Technical Program features invited speakers
Peter W. Shor (AT&T Bell Labs.),
Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr. (UMBC),
David Shmoys (Cornell), and
Bradley C. Kuszmaul (MIT Lab for Computer Science).
Man vs. Machine Chess Match:
Grandmaster Gennady Sagalchik vs.
Intel Paragon(tm) supercomputer running *Socrates (by Christopher F. Joerg, et al., MIT Lab for Computer Science).

LIVE view of match from UMBC brought to you by Intel.
Moves displayed LIVE over Internet Chess Club (ICC).

Send comments, suggestions and inquiries to the organizers.

What?

Maryland Theory Day is a biannual meeting of researchers and graduate students from the greater Baltimore-Washington, DC area. Its goals are to present current research in theoretical computer science and to promote interaction among participants from local universities, industries, and government agencies. This one-day conference features research talks by distinguished invited speakers.