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Thomas Anantharaman

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Thomas S. Anantharaman is a computer statistician specializing in Bayesian inference approaches for NP-complete problems. He is best known for his work with Feng-hsiung Hsu from 1985 to 1990 on the Chess playing computers ChipTest and Deep Thought at Carnegie Mellon University which led to his 1990 PhD Dissertation: "A Statistical Study of Selective Min-Max Search in Computer Chess". This work was the foundation for the IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue which beat world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Life and career

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Anantharaman obtained a B.Tech. degree in Electronics in 1982 from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi).[1] He got (in 1977) IIT-JEE rank (AIR) # 2. Anantharaman went to USA and joined Carnegie Mellon University as a PhD student where he worked on the chess playing computers ChipTest and DeepThought with Feng-hsiung Hsu. Anantharaman received his PhD degree in 1990 and joined the field of biotechnology and Feng-hsiung Hsu joined IBM to design the Deep Blue IBM super-computer, which defeated Garry Kasparov in the historic chess match.

In 1985, Carnegie Mellon University graduate students Feng-hsiung Hsu, Anantharaman, Murray Campbell and Andreas Nowatzyk used spare chips they'd found to put together a chess-playing machine that they called ChipTest. By 1987, the machine, integrating some innovative ideas about search strategies, had become the reigning computer chess champion. A successor, Deep Thought, using two special-purpose chips, plus about 200 off-the-shelf chips, working in parallel, achieved grandmaster-level play.[2]

Following this work, Anantharaman focused his attentions into the field of biostatistics and the application of Bayesian methods to the analysis of single molecule Optical Mapping technologies. He is currently a Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer at BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California.

References

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  1. ^ "ITBHUGlobal.org: The Chronicle: Time and life of Prof. T R Anantharaman". ITBHU Global Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010.
  2. ^ "The making of a chess machine by Eric J. Lerner". Domino.watson.ibm.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
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  • Anantharaman T, Mishra B, Schwartz D (1999). "Genomics via optical mapping. III: Contiging genomic DNA". Proc Int Conf Intell Syst Mol Biol: 18–27. PMID 10786282.
  • Anantharaman TS, Mishra B, Schwartz D (1997). "Genomics via optical mapping. II: Ordered restriction maps". J Comput Biol. 4 (2): 91–118. doi:10.1089/cmb.1997.4.91. PMID 9228610.
  • Nicole T. Perna; Guy Plunkett III; Valerie Burland; Bob Mau; Jeremy D. Glasner; Debra J. Rose; George F. Mayhew; Peter S. Evans; Jason Gregor; Heather A. Kirkpatrick; György Pósfai; Jeremiah Hackett; Sara Klink; Adam Boutin; Ying Shao; Leslie Miller; Erik J. Grotbeck; N. Wayne Davis; Alex Lim; Eileen T. Dimalanta; Konstantinos D. Potamousis; Jennifer Apodaca; Thomas S. Anantharaman; Jieyi Lin; Galex Yen; David C. Schwartz; Rodney A. Welch & Frederick R. Blattner (2001). "Genome sequence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7". Nature. 409 (6819): 529–533. Bibcode:2001Natur.409..529P. doi:10.1038/35054089. PMID 11206551.


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