His master's dissertation was titled Cray Blitz: A Computer Chess Playing Program.
[1] Hyatt earned a Ph.D. in computer and information sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1988.
His thesis was titled A High-Performance Parallel Algorithm to Search Depth-First Game Trees.
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.
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.