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). 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. 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==