Ed English
Ed English [1]
Ed English,
an American computer scientist, programmer and entrepreneur in the area of mobile application,
internet security, e-commerce,
and video games.
He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science in 1979 from Boston College.
In 1979/80 he was affiliated with Fidelity Electronics, where he developed software for microcomputer chess games.
According to his LinkedIn site, he improved the alpha-beta implementation, apparently of the Chess Challenger 7 by primary author Ron Nelson,
to double its playing speed [2].
Ed English further worked as game developer for Parker Brothers, where he programmed the Frogger game for the Atari 2600.
