Jonathan Schaeffer
Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the 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 the primary developer of Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker.
Read more about Jonathan Schaeffer: Early Life, Draughts: Chinook, Poker: Polaris, Currently
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