UACPRG

From PokerAI

Univesity of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group (UACPRG) is a game theory group in the University of Alberta that drives the university research of poker in the last decade. Among many different pokerbots, UACPRG group developed Poki and Polaris. They are also the organizers of the annual AAAI computer poker competition.

On the question "What you guys are doing, and why?", the answer given was: "The goal of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group is to create a computer program that plays poker better than any human being. We will have to solve many interesting computer science problems along the way."

People

The following people are present members of the UofA Computer Poker Group:

• Darse Billings
• Neil Burch
• Morgan Kan
• Mike Johanson
• Nolan Bard
• John Hawkin
• Duane Szafron
• Robert Holte
• Michael Bowling
• Jonathan Schaeffer

The following people are former members of the UofA Computer Poker Group:

• Martin Zinkevich
• Bret Hoehn
• Terence Schauenberg
• Aaron Davidson
• Lourdes Pena
• Denis Papp

The following people were cited as members of the UofA Computer Poker Group, but are not refered as such on the group website:

• Josh Davidson
• Martha Lednicky
• Andrew Albert

See also

• AAAIc
• Poker Academy
• Polaris
• Carnegie Mellon University

Links

• UofA Poker Research Group Homepage