William Tunstall-Pedoe

Early life and family In 1969, Tunstall-Pedoe was born into a family of medical professionals in Dulwich.

Tunstall-Pedoe is the son and nephew of identical twin cardiologists Hugh and Dan Tunstall Pedoe, the grandson of the mathematician Daniel Pedoe, and the great nephew of Colditz escapee Pete Tunstall.

In 1982, when he was 13 years old, Tunstall-Pedoe moved to Scotland, where he wrote commercial software for a business run by the computer teacher while at the High School of Dundee. including working as a fellow at Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management and Said Business School.

In 2010 Tunstall-Pedoe's engine Evi calculated that Sunday, 11 April 1954, was the most boring day in history.

The Da Vinci Code and anagrams Tunstall-Pedoe created an AI anagram generated application called Anagram Genius that turned any text into relevant anagrams. Dan Brown used the software to create the anagrams that were integral to the plot of The Da Vinci Code novel and his name appears in the acknowledgements in the book. The same anagrams were used in the film The Da Vinci Code.

AI chess In 1993, at just 24 years of age, Tunstall-Pedoe developed "Cyber Chess", which was published by The Fourth Dimension. It was an early commercial chess-playing program where the weights were tuned with a Genetic Algorithm.