Events: detail
Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers
- Hosted by:
- Professor David Parkes
- Speaker:
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Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta
- Starts:
- November 05, 2007 at 12:00 pm
- Ends:
- November 05, 2007 at 01:00 pm
- Location:
- Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Maxwell Dworkin, G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
- Maps:
Description
Researcher Jonathan Schaeffer tells the story of his nearly two decade personal and professional quest of programming a machine to win the World Checkers Championship.
Under his tutelage, Chinook became the first program in any game to win the right to play for a human world championship.
While the program lost the championship match in 1992, Chinook became the undisputed champion in 1994. By 1996, it became clear that the program was much stronger than any human, so Chinook uttered its last “King Me!”
About Jonathan Schaeffer
Jonathan Schaeffer is a Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is the leader of the checkers project, and he wrote most of the Chinook program. His research interests include parallel computing and artificial intelligence. He also works on poker-playing programs (this has been commercialized as Poker Academy).
This is a special joint Computer Science – AIRG Colloquium
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Michael Patrick Rutter
- Phone:
- 617-496-3815
- Email:
- mrutter [ at ] seas.harvard.edu
- Website:
- Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers
