Stephen F. Wheeler

Stephen F. Wheeler was nominated and selected by Marquis Who’s Who for Who’s Who in America, 2022 – 2023. The following year, 2023, He was nominated and selected for Who’s Who in the World, 2023 – 2024. Dr. Wheeler have been a Principal Consultant for several of the largest computer consulting companies, including Cap Gemini America, Decision Consultants, Inc., and Wipro, Ltd. Early in my career he served as Senior Systems Engineer for Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining the UNT faculty he was a senior AI research scientist and consulting partner with Wipro, Ltd. My most recent contract was as a Data Scientist on the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics advanced analytics team performing advanced analytics on the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter), the most advanced military jet fighter aircraft in the world. Prior to joining the UNT faculty, he has served as Senior Professor of Information Systems for Keller Graduate School of DeVry University, Dallas, Texas, a position he held from 2002 to 2017. He has also held a faculty appointment at LeTourneau University. His undergraduate (BSc.) degree is in Computer Science from Texas A&M University - Commerce, where he also received my Graduate (MSc.) degree in Computer Science with thesis research in Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Wheeler holds a Postgraduate (Ph.D.) degree in Artificial Intelligence from Walden University. His research domain was linear symbolic problem-solving systems utilizing Aspiration Search modeled on the Iterative-Deepening Alpha-Beta search procedure known as Negamax Fail-Soft Alpha-Beta. His Doctoral research also involved Natural Language Processing (NLP), and his dissertation is titled "A Performance Analysis of the Iterative-Deepening Alpha-Beta Search Procedure Under Variations of the Ordering Interval within a Chess Program." He is presently conducting unfunded postdoctoral research in intelligent problem-solving systems, and quantum computing. He is an FAA Licensed Commercial Pilot with an Instrument Rating and serve as a Transport Mission Pilot with Texas Wing, Group III of the United States Air Force Auxiliary with the rank of Captain (active). He has successfully completed the Squadron Leadership School, and He is the Aerospace Education Officer of his Squadron. He has achieved the Chuck Yeager Aerospace Education Excellence Award. Dr. Wheller also been trained in Emergency Services, and has successfully completed the ICS-300 and ICS-400 Incident Command System certification. He has also been a NASA Field Research Astronaut serving as Mission Commander of NASA / MDRS Crew 88 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, January 2010. His research and that of his crew of aerospace scientists was reported to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and NASA Ames Research Center to provide research data in support of the planned 2033 manned Mars mission.

Publications

Artificial Intelligence in Chess-Playing Automata: A Paradigm for the Quiescence Phase of a-ß Search
Artificial Intelligence in Chess-Playing Automata: A Paradigm for the Quiescence Phase of a-ß Search
Stephen F. Wheeler. © 2024. 22 pages.
This chapter presents the results of a study for improving the performance of the quiescence phase of Alpha-Beta (α-β) search. The Minimax algorithm's α-β enhancement...