Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan's research area is artificial intelligence (AI). He is
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 is the author of the checkers-playing program Chinook, the first computer program to win a human world championship. In 2007 his team announced that the game had been solved: perfect play by both sides leads to a draw.