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		Jonathan Schaeffer, the head of the team that created Chinook, is a 37-year-old computer scientist with a passing resemblance to the comedian and film maker Albert Brooks.
		Schaeffer convinced Silicon Graphics to lend him an additional computer, the "Onyx." This machine is not as powerful as the Challenge, but in the event of difficulties with the Challenge, the Onyx would also be capable of running Chinook; the Chinook/Onyx combination plays a good game, although not as good as Chinook/Challenge.
		Schaeffer was eager for a win in the latter match, so, with the instincts of a hustler, he disabled some of Chinook's new features for the Nationals, the better to keep Tinsley from knowing the new Chinook's full power until the one-on-one match itself began.
	www.math.wisc.edu /~propp/chinook.html (13042 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jonathan Schaeffer is a researcher and professor at the (additional info and facts about University of Alberta) University of Alberta.
		He led the team that wrote (Large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning) Chinook, the world's strongest checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs.
		The most famous of these is the (additional info and facts about Poki) Poki poker player which uses (additional info and facts about Monte Carlo simulation) Monte Carlo simulation to both simulate and model human opponents.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jonathan_schaeffer.htm (111 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer - Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Bornsson, Neil Burch, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin uller, Robert Lake, Paul Lu, and Steve Sutphen.
		Zhuang Guo, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron, and Patrick Earl.
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Yngvi Bornsson, Neil Burch, Robert Lake, Paul Lu, and Steve Sutphen.
	www.cs.ualberta.ca /people/faculty/jonathan.php (917 words)

	Schaeffer celebrates Canada Research Chair posting - ExpressNews - University of Alberta
		Schaeffer gained international attention as the inventor of Chinook, the world checkers champion.
		Schaeffer recently attended a conference and met with representatives of a company who want to create a real-time virtual reality triage centre to train military medical personnel.
		And Schaeffer is a part of a bioinformatics firm that has developed three commercial products to perform precisely that sort of high-level analysis.
	www.expressnews.ualberta.ca /article.cfm?id=2301 (617 words)

	Yellow Bishop Computer Chess Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls, Arie de Bruin: "An Algorithm Faster than NegaScout and SSS* in Practice", 1995, 14p.
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Robert Lake: "A Re-Examination of Brute-Force Search", 1993, 8p.
		Jonathan Schaeffer: "The History Heuristic and Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice", 1989, 28p.
	www.ebizmarine.com /folio/ybishop/page1.htm (1388 words)

	Canada Research Chairs - Chairholders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jonathan Schaeffer is one adult who knows that computer games represent much more than just a way of killing time.
		His intent is to achieve a better understanding of what it takes to build high-performance systems that operate in real time, where high-performance is defined as achieving a performance level comparable to, or better than, that of the best humans.
		Rather than seeking small incremental advances that are in isolation of the domain in which the ideas could be applied, Dr. Schaeffer plans to take an application and solve all the problems necessary to achieve high performance.
	www.chairs.gc.ca /web/chairholders/viewprofile_e.asp?id=538 (318 words)

	Graham Kendall - Game Playing Research - Checkers
		Samuel made the program play against itself and after only a few days play, the program was able to beat its creator and compete on equal terms with strong human opponents.
		This is the book Jonathan Schaeffer wrote, telling the story of CHINOOK and how it became the checkers world champion.
		Schaeffer, Jonathan, Joseph Culberson, Norman Treloar, et al.
	www.cs.nott.ac.uk /~gxk/games/checkers/research.html (1143 words)

	DBLP: Duane Szafron
		Kai Tan, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, John Anvik, Steve MacDonald: Using generative design patterns to generate parallel code for a distributed memory environment.
		Matthew McNaughton, Paul Lu, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron: Memory-Efficient A* Heuristics for Multiple Sequence Alignment.
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Joseph C. Culberson, Norman Treloar, Brent Knight, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron: A World Championship Caliber Checkers Program.
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Szafron:Duane.html (1049 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jonathan Schaeffer is a professor in the University of Alberta's Computing Science department and is the winner of the 1998-99 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.
		He is the author of the chess-playing program Phoenix, and is the principal author of the Chinook checkers program, the first computer program to win a human world championship.
		Come to the Symposium and hear Professor Schaeffer discuss "The Games Computers Play." Find out how artificial intelligence research is expanding the boundaries of human endeavor.
	www.ualberta.ca /~vbowler/symposium/schaeffer.html (147 words)

	Many computers make light work - Faculty of Science - University of Alberta
		Schaeffer said the efforts of U of A computer science professor Dr. Paul Lu and his graduate student, Chris Pinchak, made the project a success.
		Using the computer power harnessed by Schaeffer and Lu, a computer model of one chiral molecule was fixed in space while another virtual chiral molecule, and then its mirror image, moved around it.
		In casual conversations with Schaeffer and Lu, a way to run the calculations was uncovered.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /science/news.cfm?story=14753 (722 words)

	NSERC - World Champion Checkers Program Brings U of A Professor Major research Honour
		Schaeffer's invention of the checker-playing program Chinook was a milestone in artificial intelligence and a Canadian triumph, said Dr. Brzustowski.
		Schaeffer's reputation as one of the most successful researchers in the world is well deserved.
		The honour is given to university researchers who are capturing international attention for outstanding scientific or engineering achievement.
	www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca /news/1998/p980211_3.htm (656 words)

	Computer Chess Publications
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron and Robert Lake
		To our knowledge, these are the first reported results that compare both depth-first and best-first algorithms given the same amount of memory.
		To our knowledge, these are the rst reported results that compare both depth-first and best-first algorithms given the same amount of memory.
	chess.verhelst.org /publications.html (3402 words)

	Human rights for robots? - Faculty of Science - University of Alberta
		Jonathan Schaeffer: Discussing the moral and ethical questions of the future.
		Robots in use today aren't the type that will be discussed in the debate, says moderator Jonathan Schaeffer, a renowned U of A computing scientist who holds the iCORE Chair in high performance artificial intelligence systems.
		It is the stuff of science fiction, but futurists are predicting the advent of such machine-beings and researchers are working towards it.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /science/news.cfm?story=31003 (504 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer: Aske Plaat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jonathan Schaeffer and Aske Plaat Unifying Single-Agent and Two-Player Search, AI'00: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 13th biennial Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI) Conference, H.
		Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Arie de Bruin and Wim Pijls.
		No and Yes, Technical Report 95-15, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, June 1995.
	games.cs.ualberta.ca /~jonathan/Grad/plaat.html (266 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: One jump ahead: Challenging human supremacy in checkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From its beginnings in 1988, Chinook became a worthy opponent to the world champion by 1990 and by 1992 had defeated all the world's top human players.
		In this fascinating account, Jonathan Schaeffer, the originator and leader of the Chinook team, provides an engrossing story of failures and successes.
		Schaeffer recounts his hopes, feelings and motivations with a brutal honesty - never shying away from an accurate description when authorial licence might have presented him in a better light.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0387949305 (645 words)

	Alibris: Jonathan Schaeffer
		by Schaeffer, Jonathan (Editor), and Van Den Herik, H J, and Van Den Herik, Jaap (Editor)
		One of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human players.
		Despite early optimism in the field, the challenge proved to be surprisingly difficult.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Jonathan_Schaeffer (213 words)

	jonathan schaeffer - ResearchIndex document query (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		to Allen Malony (University of Oregon)Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta)Richard Brent and
		Although he may not be aware of it, Jonathan Schaeffer was a source of inspiration.
		An 8x8 checkers project is headed by Jonathan Schaeffer [Schaeffer 92]His group has computed all
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Jonathan+Schaeffer (527 words)

	SCEAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ian Parsons, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron, Ronald C. Unrau
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Joseph C. Culberson, Norman Treloar, Brent Knight, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron
		Jonathan Schaeffer, Norman Treloar, Paul Lu, Robert Lake
	delab.csd.auth.gr /sceas/php/search.php4?author_id=1296 (769 words)

	Cake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Jonathan Schaeffer set out to revive the field of computer checkers, he was often confronted by the question: "Didn't Samuel solve checkers?" - referring to Arthur Samuel, who pioneered computer checkers.
		In an instance of history repeating itself, many people, artificial intelligence experts and checkers players alike, believe that Chinook "solved" the game of checkers, that it was very close to perfection.
		Jonathan Schaeffer and his Chinook project got me interested in checkers programming in the first place.
	www.fierz.ch /cake.htm (2433 words)

	Schaeffer, Jonathan; Muller, Martin; Bjornsson, Yngvi - Computers And Games : Third International Conference, Cg 2002, ...
		Schaeffer, Jonathan; Muller, Martin; Bjornsson, Yngvi - Computers And Games : Third International Conference, Cg 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002: Revised Papers (isbn 3540205454) - new and used books
		Schaeffer, Jonathan; Muller, Martin; Bjornsson, Yngvi - Computers and Games : Third International Conference, CG 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002: Revised Papers
		ISBN > Schaeffer, Jonathan; Muller, Martin; Bjornsson, Yngvi - Computers And Games : Third International Conference, Cg 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002: Revised Papers (isbn 3540205454) - new and used books
	www.isbn.pl /I-3540205454/Computers-and-Games.html (273 words)

	Resume of Aske Plaat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Research Assistant at the Department of Computing Science of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
		Jonathan Schaeffer on high performance two-player search algorithms.
		1996: Novag Award for the best computer chess publication of 1994-1995, awarded by the ICCA, for the report A New Paradigm for Minimax Search (co-authored with Jonathan Schaeffer, Arie de Bruin, and Wim Pijls).
	theory.lcs.mit.edu /~plaat/resume.html (808 words)

	Games & Puzzles
		Sliding-tile puzzles and Rubik's Cube in AI research, by Richard E. KorfThe role of games in understanding computational intelligence, by Jonathan SchaefferHow machines have learned to play Othello, by Michael BuroMastering Scrabble, by Brian Sheppard
		Buro, Michael, and Richard E. Korf, Michael Littman, Brian Sheppard, Jonathan Schaeffer.
		Haym Hirsh's collection of five essays which demonstrate how "[m]any ideas that have developed in other areas of AI are now finding important applications for those working on game-playing and puzzle-solving systems.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/games.html (1966 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer: Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Distinguished paper prize at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003: "Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker" by Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Rob Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, and Duane Szafron,
		Best paper prize Canadian AI Conference (AI'02), 2002: "Transposition Table Driven Work Scheduling n Distributed Game-Tree Search" by Akihiro Kishimoto and Jonathan Schaeffer.
		Best paper prize, 7th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS'2002): "Generating Parallel Programs from the Wavefront Design Pattern" by John Anvik, Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steven Bromling, and Kai Tan.
	games.cs.ualberta.ca /~jonathan/awards.html (244 words)

	steve macdonald - ResearchIndex document query
		Frameworks from Parallel Design Patterns Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Steven
		Henri Bal, Bruce Boghosian, Paul Lu, Neil MacDonald, Steve Moyer, Jonathan Schaeffer, and David Sitsky,
		This is a preprint of a copyrighted article that will..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Steve+MacDonald (401 words)

	Jonathan Schaeffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)*
		Our work is intended to make this technology available to non-programmers, demonstrate its pedagogical value in the classroom, and work towards popularizing this medium as a new form of creative literature.
		“ScriptEase: Generative Design Patterns for Computer Role-Playing Games”, M. McNaughton, M. Cutumisu, D. afron, J. Schaeffer, J. Redford and D. Parker, Automated Software Engineering, 2004, pp.
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	www.gamesconference.org /digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=226 (969 words)

	Amazon.com: Computers and Games : Third International Conference, CG 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002, Revised ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amazon.com: Computers and Games : Third International Conference, CG 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science): Books: Jonathan Schaeffer,Martin Müller,Yngvi Björnsson
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		by Jonathan Schaeffer (Editor), Martin Müller (Editor), Yngvi Björnsson (Editor)
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3540205454?v=glance (499 words)

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