Feng-hsiung Hsu Feng-hsiung Hsu Feng-hsiung Hsu () (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a computer scientist and the author of the book "Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion". His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, 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 was the architect and the principal designer of the IBM Deep Blue chess computer. He was the recipient of the 1990 Mephisto Award for his doctoral dissertation and also the 1991 ACM Grace Murray
The Deep Blue Good-by back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with egret colonies dwindling, mullet getting scarce, mangrove dying of new diseases born of dryness. This was in a paperback originally published in 1965 when the general public was still not conversant with the concept of environmentalism. "The Deep Blue Good-by" introduces readers to McGee, his place of residence, the "Busted Flush" (a houseboat he won in a poker game), and its mooring place, slip F-18 at the Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In the early chapters we learn that McGee is