@inproceedings{ff098540d2d311de8daf000ea68e967b,
title = "An Early Danish Computer Game: The case of Nim, Piet Hein, and Regnecentralen",
abstract = "This paper reports on the development of Nimbi, which is an early computer game implemented at the Danish Computer Company Regnecentralen in 1962-63. Nimbi is a variant of the ancient game Nim. The paper traces the primary origins of the development of Nimbi. These include a mathematical analysis from 1901 of Nim that “killed the game” as the outcome could be predicted quite easily; the desire of the Danish inventor Piet Hein to make a game that eluded such analyses; and the desire of Piet Hein to have computers play games against humans. The development of Nimbi was successful in spite of considerable technical obstacles. However, it seems that the game was not used for publicizing the capabilities of computers – at least not widely – as was the case with earlier Nim implementations, such as the British Nim-playing computer Nimrod in 1951. ",
keywords = "Nimbi, Regnecentralen, Piet Hein, Computer games, Mathematical analysis, Nimbi, Regnecentralen, Piet Hein, Computer games, Mathematical analysis",
author = "J{\o}rgensen, {Anker Helms}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-03757-3",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-03756-6",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "303/2009",
pages = "283--288",
editor = "John Impagliazzo and Timo J{\"a}rvi and Petri Paju",
booktitle = "History of Nordic Computing 2",
address = "Germany",
note = "History of Nordic Computing 2 ; Conference date: 21-08-2007 Through 23-08-2007",
}