Hsu, Feng-Hsiung

Hsu is the founding father of the Deep Blue project. He began in 1985 as a student in the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1989 to 1997 he worked as the system architect and chip designer for the Deep Blue Chess machine at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. He left IBM in 1999 and in now a research scientist at the Western Research Lab of Compaq Computer, Inc.