Darse+Billings

a Canadian computer scientist with a M.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (2006) on Computer Poker from University of Alberta. His research interests covers not only [|games of chance] and incomplete information games like [|Roshambo], but also [|abtract strategy games], in particular Lines of Action, where his program [|Mona] won the de facto world championship in 2000, defeating all of the top human players, and winning every game it played.
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 * [[image:tnp-darse.jpg width="260" link="http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Photos/Darse/"]] ||~   || **Darse Billings**,

Darse Billings is creator and director of //The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions//, co-founder and lead architect for the //University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group// , and designer of the [|pokerbots] //Loki, Poki, Sparbot, Vexbot, Hyperborean, [|Polaris], Maxwell, Qeqbot//, etc., commercially licenced beside others to //Poker Academy// and [|Stacked]. || toc =Selected Publication=
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1995 ...

 * Darse Billings (**1995**). //Computer Poker//. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (**1998**). //[|Poker as a Testbed for Machine Intelligence Research]//. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
 * Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (**1998**). //Opponent Modeling in Poker//. AAAI/IAAI 1998,[|pdf]

2000 ...

 * Darse Billings (**2000**). //[|Thoughts on RoShamBo]//. ICGA Journal [|Vol. 23, No. 1]
 * Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (**2000**). //[|Mona and YL’s Lines of Action]//.
 * Darse Billings (**2000**). //The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions//. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (**2002**). //The Challenge of Poker//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1-2, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings (**2003**). //Vexbot wins Poker tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 » 8th Computer Olympiad
 * Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (**2003**). //Search and Knowledge in Lines of Action//. Advances in Computer Games 10, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, Duane Szafron (**2003**). //Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker//. [|IJCAI-03], Winner of the IJCAI / AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award, [|pdf]
 * Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Terence Schauenberg, Neil Burch, Michael Bowling, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (**2004**). //[|Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games]//. CG 2004

2005 ...

 * Darse Billings (**2006**). //[|Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]//. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta
 * Darse Billings, Morgan Kan (**2006**). //[|A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3
 * Darse Billings (**2006**). //On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4

=Forum Posts=

1990 ...
> [|Awari?] by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992 » Awari
 * [|rec.games.strategic] by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992
 * [|Analysis: Please include your rating!] by Darse Billings, rgc, September 11, 1992
 * [|how does go compare with chess?] by Darse Billings, rgc, July 25, 1994

2000 ...

 * [|Shredder wins in Graz after controversy] by Darse Billings, CCC, December 09, 2003 » Shredder, WCCC 2003
 * [|Shredder wins in Graz after controversy -- rebuttal] by Darse Billings, CCC, December 21, 2003

=External Links=
 * [|Darse's garish blue-green homepage]
 * [|Darse Billings' ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Darse Billings - Canada | LinkedIn]
 * [| Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments] by Darse Billings, ChessBase News, December 14, 2006
 * [|Darse's No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Primer]

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