Tom Truscott
Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University.
He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.
One of his first endeavors into computers was writing a computer chess program and then later working on a global optimizer for C at Bell Labs.
This computer chess program competed in multiple computer chess tournaments such as the Toronto chess tournament in 1977( 2nd place) and the Linz tournament in 1980( 3rd place).
Today, Truscott works on tools that analyze software as a software developer for the SAS Institute.
Truscott received the Usenix Life Time Achievement Award for Usenet.
Monty Newborn
Monroe" Monty" Newborn( born May 21, 1938), chairman of the computer chess committee for the Association of Computing Machines, was a professor of electrical engineering in Columbia University, and is now a professor of computer science at McGill University in Montreal.
He co-wrote a computer chess program named Ostrich.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Andrew Bujalski
Andrew Bujalski (born April 29, 1977) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, who has been called the "godfather of mumblecore."
Mikhail Donskoy
Mikhail Vladimirovich Donskoy,( 9 September 1948 – 13 January 2009) was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist.
In 1970 he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he became one of the lead developers of Kaissa, a computer chess program that won the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.
After the dissolution of the Soviet computer chess initiative in the beginning of the 1980s he went into development of databases.
In 1994 he established his own company, DISCo( Donskoy Interactive Software Company), which, among other projects, developed the Symbian interface for ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries.
Computer Chess (film)
Computer Chess is a 2013 independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Bujalski.
The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, and subsequently screened at such festivals as South by Southwest and the Maryland Film Festival.
It is Bujalski's second black-and-white film, and was shot with analog videocameras.
It is more improvisatory than his previous films, with only an eight-page treatment for a script.
Bujalski also cast nonprofessional actors who were knowledgeable in computer technology.
Robert Hyatt
Robert( Bob) Hyatt is a retired Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences( 1988 – 2016).
Hyatt taught computer science for 46 years.
1970- 1985 University of Southern Mississippi and 1985- 2016 University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Hyatt is co-author of the computer chess program Crafty and the co-author of Cray Blitz, a two- time winner of the World Computer Chess Championships.
He has been actively involved in computer chess since he first started to program a computer to play chess in 1968.
These efforts have been supported by various computer vendors such as Univac( 1978), Cray Research( 1980- 1994), and more recently AMD via their developer's lab.
Crafty is freely available both in executable form( from many different web sites) and in source form( from Hyatt's home page).
Crafty presently participates in many computer chess tournaments( and an occasional human chess tournament).
An old version of the source of Cray Blitz is also available on the internet for those interested in seeing what computer chess looked like in the late 1980s.
Hyatt was born in Laurel, Mississippi in 1948.
He earned both a Bachelor's degree in 1970 and a Master's degree in 1983 from The University of Southern Mississippi.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1988.
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Stefan Meyer- Kahlen( born 1968, in Düsseldorf) is a German programmer of the computer chess program" Shredder"., his program had won 18 titles as World Computer Chess Champion.
Four of the titles were blitz championships, and one was a Chess 960 championship.
He also invented the Universal Chess Interface, a chess engine protocol.

Question: What nationality is the director of film Computer Chess (Film)?
Answer: American