Update: The “Chess as Drosophila” article was recently awarded the 2013 Maurice Daumas Prize.

My article “Is Chess the Drosophila of AI? A Social History of an Algorithm” is now available as an online preprint from Sage Journals Online. The print version will appear in the next issue of Social Studies of Science. Depending on your level of access to Sage Online, you can read an advance copy of the full version.

For those of you without access to the Sage database, a draft version of the computer chess paper is available.

Update: The final version of the Chess as Drosophila piece is now available in the February 2012 issue of Social Studies of Science.