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."
Richard Stallman about "The Right to Read"
News
July 2009: IJCAI paper on Kermit - the best Skat playing program
in the world!
Oct.30 2007: On Mondays at 14:00 MST there will be
skat players
on ISS. Please join us!
Everybody is welcome.
Oct.29 2007: Interested in learning a good card game? Join us to
play skat Wednesdays
from 12:30 to 14:00 in the SUB food court seating area. Everybody is welcome!
Sep. 2005: We are planning an RTS game AI competition
Current Courses
Fall 2009: 101 - Introduction to Computing
Science
Fall 2009: 396 - Advanced Game Programming
Fall 2009: 657 - Heuristic Search
Computer Skat
Our program Kermit is currently the
best Skat program in the world!
It plays on ISS - the international skat server.
The Skat group meets Thursdays at 11:30 in Ath 337. Please send me
email if you are interested in joining.
I am looking for a MSc student interested in card game AI!
skatgame.net: A website devoted to playing Skat in worldwide.
GGS is moving to bodo1.cs.ualberta.ca shortly! For
a brief period of time I will run multiplexors on
opal:4000/5000
GGS is a generic game server on which humans
and machines can currently play the following turn-based games:
Othello
Hex
Amazons
Ataxx
Go
Domineering
DotsAndBoxes
Phutball
Snort
GGS uses a simple text protocol and is based on an extensible
server/client architecture to which new game services can easily be
added. For instance, a tournament director for board games is
available that can run round-robin and swiss-style tournaments for all
available boardgames. There is also a message service that delivers
messages to buddies when they arrive. GGS is home of the world's
strongest Othello programs and their weaker relatives. If you have the
chance, we recommend installing GGSA (see below) and play some Othello
games against "ant" or "fly" by clicking on the Othello tab followed
by double-clicking ant or fly in the user list. Have fun!
We are looking for developers of GGS services for other popular games
like backgammon, poker, and bridge. Currently (Aug.2006) we are adding
a Skat card-game service to GGS.
GGS can be reached by telnet bodo1.cs.ualberta.ca
5000 or telnet bodo1.cs.ualberta.ca
4000
Anonymous SVN access:
svn co svn://anonymous@bodo1.cs.ualberta.ca:/all/pubsoft/GGS (password: guest)
2009 RTS Game AI Competition