Chips Challenging Champions

Games, Computers and Artificial Intelligence

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Paperback, 370 Pages
Published: APR-2002
ISBN 10: 0-444-50949-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-444-50949-9
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND


By
J. Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Department of Computing, Alberta, Canada
H.J. van den Herik, Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Computer Science, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Description
One of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human players. Despite early optimism in the field, the challenge proved to be surprisingly difficult. However, the 1990s saw amazing progress. Computers are now better than humans in checkers, Othello and Scrabble; are at least as good as the best humans in backgammon and chess; and are rapidly improving at hex, go, poker, and shogi. This book documents the progress made in computers playing games and puzzles. The book is the definitive source for material of high-performance game-playing programs.

Audience:
Members of AI organizations and attendees at major AI conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, etc. All AI research groups in the world, including academia (most CS departments have one), industry and libraries. Computer-games aficionados.


 
Last update: 5 Nov 2011