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CONTACT:mrutter@seas.harvard.edu
ORGANIZER:Professor David Parkes
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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.
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\nUnder his tutelage\, Chinook became the 
 first program in any game to win the right to play for a human world champi
 onship.
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\nWhile the program lost the championship match in 1992\, Chinoo
 k became the undisputed champion in 1994. By 1996\, it became clear that th
 e program was much stronger than any human\, so Chinook uttered its last â€
 śKing Me!”
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\nAbout Jonathan Schaeffer
\nJonathan Schaeffer is a Profes
 sor 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 p
 rogram. His research interests include parallel computing and artificial in
 telligence. He also works on poker-playing programs (this has been commerci
 alized as Poker Academy).
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\nThis is a special joint Computer Science –
  AIRG Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers 
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LOCATION:Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell Dworkin
  G115
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