Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Schaeffer
June, 2014
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
University of Toronto
Known forChinook (draughts player), Polaris (poker bot)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
Heuristic search
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
ThesisExperiments in Search and Knowledge (1986)
Websitewebdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan

Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer FRSC[1] (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker. He is a Founder of Onlea,[2] which produces online learning experiences.

  1. ^ Graney, Juris (3 August 2018). "Dean of science resigns from University of Alberta". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on 2021-09-19. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  2. ^ "Our Team". Onlea Corporation. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-10.