Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, and a former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker. He is a Founder of Onlea, which produces online learning experiences, and he is the founder and CEO of Synsira Software Solutions, Inc., that develops desktop software for private AI analysis. Provided by Wikipedia