Jonathan Schaeffer BSc, PhD

Jonathan Schaeffer, Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Currently I am the Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta. His research area is artificial intelligence (AI). He was best known for his 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.

He was the 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.