This is the home page of Jonathan Schaeffer, Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Computing Science at the
University of Alberta.
Note: I am not accepting any graduate students for the foreseeable future.
He is the Founder and CEO of Synsira Software Solutions Inc
.
Think of all the concerns you have with AI large language models.
If only we could eliminate them.
Try out our desktop application Kind to see how we can give you private, hallucination-free Q&A for your personal data.
I have a (sporadically updated) blog about my life in academia. Check it out
here.
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 lead 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.
