Martin Müller


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

Focusing on Monte Carlo methods in game-tree search and planning. See the research page and Publications.

Teaching this term: Cmput 403 - Practical Algorithmics.
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!

Upcoming: ACM ICPC: team Alberta Black will attend The University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest 2012 before going to World Finals in Warsaw.
Upcoming visitor February 22 - March 19: Akihiro Kishimoto, Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, a graduate from our dept.
Jan 14: The shogi program Bonkras (which stands for Bonanza cluster) beat the former top professional Yonenaga in an official match. Also see the Japan Times report, or replay the game (Bonkras moves first and its pieces are at the lower side of the board).
Jan 13-18: John Tromp is playing computer Go program Zen in a best of five match.
Visitor January 12 to February 24: Kunihito Hoki, Assistant Professor at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, author of the leading shogi program Bonanza, and inventor of the "Bonanza method" for parameter tuning which is used in all strong shogi programs now.
Old news (up to 2011)

Created: Aug 7, 2000 Last modified: Feb 17, 2012