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Michael Buro
Associate Professor
Computing Science Department
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Hans Berliner on AI trends:
"I consider the most important trend was that computers got considerably faster in these last 50 years. In this process, we found that many things for which we had at best anthropomorphic solutions, which in many cases failed to capture the real gist of a human's method, could be done by more brute-forcish methods that merely enumerated until a satisfactory solution was found. If this is heresy, so be it."

xkcd describes my work area ; Measuring Code Quality
Richard Stallman about "The Right to Read"
Is Voting Weakening America? Good Magazine
FAQ related to Carl Sagan's "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence"
Age of Ignorance
Green = Blue! Don't believe it? Check the RGB values.
Schedule

News


Courses

My F2011 CMPUT 603 presentation

Upcoming (links to previously held courses, course content may change):
F2012 CMPUT 350 Advanced Game Programming
W2012 CMPUT 201 Practical Programming Methodology
W2012 CMPUT 657 Heuristic Search

Meetings

Please send me email if you are interested in joining us.

Computer Skat

Our program Kermit is currently the best Skat program in the world! It plays on ISS - the international skat server.

skatgame.net: A website devoted to playing Skat worldwide.

skatgame.net/wiki: An international Skat wiki.

skatgame.net/forum: A international forum about Skat.


Advancing Real-Time Strategy Game AI

ORTS: A free software Real-Time-Strategy Game Engine

2009 RTS Game AI Competition

There will be an ORTS competition in August 2009. It will feature the same games as last year. Details ...

2008 RTS Game AI Competition

2007 RTS Game AI Competition



Computer Othello

Logistello - a strong Othello program.
(last update: November/2/2002, Logistello source available!)

Tominaga vs. Logistello (last update: May/14/2002, Logistello won the two games)

Logistello gets lucky and wins the December 2002 GGS tournament


Generic Game Server (GGS)


Miscellaneous

Java better than C++? Read this

Matrix game LP solver (C++) : lp.tgz (last update: Dec/17/2003, initial release)

McCreight's Radix Priority Search Trees (C++): PS_Tree.H Global.H (last update: Feb/21/2002, initial release)

PROCMAIL SPAM BUSTER - kills all spam dead, guaranteed :-)
(last update: Aug/4/2003, fixed security hole: / in email address allowed to overwrite any files)

openc++ 2.5.12 for gcc-3.0.3 (last update: Jan/16/2002, initial release)

bprof+scripts (last update: July/23/2003, initial release) bprof is a C/C++ profiler that generates line-by-line timing information.


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