This is the home page of Jonathan Schaeffer, Professor in the Department of Computing Science
at the University of Alberta. Currently I am on secondment as the Vice Provost and Associate Vice President (Information Technology) at the University of Alberta.

My research area is artificial intelligence (AI). I am
best known for my work applying AI technology to
the problem of building high performance game-playing programs, as well as tackling the challenges
of the commercial computer games industry.

I am the author of the checkers-playing program Chinook, the first computer program to win a human world championship. In 2007 we announced that the game had been solved: perfect play by both sides leads to a draw.

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