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.
Dec 6: It's official: Our team Alberta Black is going to the ACM ICPC
World Finals in Warsaw, Poland!
Dec 6: The Go program Erica, written by our Postdoc Aja Huang,
made it to the final game of the 5th
UEC cup!
Zen won the event. Things did not go well for Fuego this year, with one game lost by network
problems and another by an operator error.
Nov 18-26:
Lots of medals for UofA programs at the Olympiad! Gold in
Hex,
Havannah and
NoGo.
Silver in Hex and NoGo. Bronze in
9x9 Go
and
Amazons.
Fuego also took 4th in
13x13 Go
and 5th in
19x19.
Nov 12:
Getting ready for the
Computer Olympiad
in Tilburg, Netherlands. UofA will have entries
for Hex, Go, Havannah, Amazons, and NoGo.
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