July 21, 2006
Poker-Playing Computers Face Off in Boston
This month computer scientists from around the world will gather in Boston to pit poker-playing computer programs against one another in a quest to advance the frontiers of artificial-intelligence research.
Some of the programs try to incorporate the poker-playing rules of experts. But two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have taken a different route. Their program, called GS2, tries to compute all the possible sets of cards that could be held by opponents and then calculates
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