Martin Müller
	Professor Office:   345 Athabasca Phone:   1 - 780 - 492 3703 Fax (CS dept.):   1 - 780 - 492 1071 Email (in domain cs.ualberta.ca): mmueller

News and Announcements

• Jan 6: restarting group meetings: each Friday, 1-2pm, CSC 349. Everybody welcome!
• Jan 5, 2010: teaching this term:
  • CMPUT 201 - Practical Programming Methodology
  • CMPUT 403 - Practical Algorithmics
  • CMPUT 655 - Traditional and Recent Techniques for Two-Player Games.
• Nov 8: Fuego won the Fifty-third KGS Computer Go Tournament with 9 wins out of 10, ahead of Mogo and Many Faces. You can read Nick Wedd's report.
• Oct 31: Two Alberta teams went to the ACM Rocky Mountain regional contest in Saskatoon.
  Alberta 1: Travis Dick, Iain Ireland, Roshan Shariff scored a convincing victory and will go to the 2010 world finals in Harbin, China.
  
  Alberta 2 with Xiaomin Zhang, David Szepesvari, Timo Ewalds achieved a strong fifth place.
• Oct 17: Our team Alberta 1 won the 7th ACPC Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest by 4 minutes over Calgary 1! Stanford 1 won the guest event with 9 out of 10 problems solved, ahead of UBC and Waterloo.
• Aug 22: At the Human vs. Computer Program Competition (FUZZ-IEEE 2009) Event held August 21-22 on Jeju Island, Korea, Fuego won a game of 9x9 Go against the top-rank (9 Dan) professional player Zhou Junxun (his name is also transliterated as Chou Chun-Hsun). It is the first time that a computer program has won a 9x9 game on even against a top-ranked player, so this represents a milestone for Computer Go.
  • Replay the game here
• May 2009: Our Go program Fuego won Gold and Silver at the Computer Olympiad 2009 in Pamplona, Spain! See the 9x9 and 19x19 results and the report in the Department news
• Teaching in Winter 2010: CMPUT 201 and 655
• Oct 2008: Our programming team won the Rocky Mountain regionals, and went to the world finals in Stockholm! See the UofA Expressnews report.

Coaching and Outreach

• Coaching our Programming Club. We meet Fridays at 3pm in the Algorithmics Lab CSC 217. Come join the team, and maybe you can go to the ACM-ICPC world finals too!
• Computing science in high schools, especially the Iverson Exam

Research

• Game-tree search and two-player games, including:
  • Computer Go
  • Monte-Carlo Tree Search
  • Efficient search methods for Depth-first Proof Number Search and solving the Graph History Interaction (GHI) Problem.
  • Combinatorial game theory
• Fully automated planning
• More research.

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University of Alberta

Computing Science