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Robert Hyatt | |
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| Born | Robert Morgan Hyatt 1948 (age 76–77) |
| Alma mater | University of Southern Mississippi University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Known for | Crafty, Cray Blitz |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, programming, computer chess |
| Institutions | University of Southern Mississippi University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Thesis | A High-Performance Parallel Algorithm to Search Depth-First Game Trees (1988) |
Robert Morgan Hyatt (born 1948) is an American computer scientist and programmer. He co-authored the computer chess programs Crafty and Cray Blitz which won two World Computer Chess Championships in the 1980s. Hyatt was a computer science professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (1970–1985) and University of Alabama at Birmingham (1988–2016).