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an American mathematician, computer scientist and computer games programmer, including the games of chess, Othello, and most notably Scrabble, where he is author of the commercial program [|Maven]. Maven applies various search algorithms for various game stages, a probability-weighted search, Monte-Carlo Tree Search and B* for the endgame analysis. Brian Sheppard holds a BA in mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, and a Ph.D. from Maastricht University under supervision of Jaap van den Herik and Jonathan Schaeffer in 2002. His Ph.D. thesis //Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble// received the ChessBase Best-Publication Award.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Brian Sheppard (**2002**). //[|Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble]//. Ph.D. thesis, Maastricht University, [|pdf], [|Stellingen pdf]
 * Brian Sheppard (**2002**). //[|World-championship-caliber Scrabble]//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1-2, [|CiteSeerX]
 * Brian Sheppard (**2002**). //An Overview of Computer Play of Scrabble//. Invited Lecture, 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * Brian Sheppard (**2003**). //Endgame Play in Scrabble//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3
 * Brian Sheppard (**2004**). //[|Efficient Control of Selective Simulations]//. CG 2004
 * Brian Sheppard (**2004**). //Efficient Control of Selective Simulations//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Re: MVV/LVA vs SEE move ordering - more test results] by Brian Sheppard, rgcc, August 27, 1995
 * [|Re: Horizon Effects in modern chess programs?] by Brian Sheppard, rgcc, September 10, 1995
 * [|Re: Unusual killer heuristic behavior] by Brian Sheppard, rgcc, September 13, 1995
 * [|Re: Deep Blue's forehand] by Brian Sheppard, rgcm, February 26, 1996

=External Links=
 * [|Brian Sheppard | LinkedIn]
 * [|Brian Sheppard talks about Maven]

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