Research Catalog

Title

Blondie24 : playing at the edge of AI / David B. Fogel.

Author

Fogel, David B.

Publication

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c2002.

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Description

xvi, 404 p. : ill.; 18 cm.

Summary

"Meet Blondie, a twenty-four-year old graduate student in mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. She skis and surfs and is an ace at math, but her real claim to fame is her ability to play checkers. She's not good enough to defeat a grand master (yet), but she did earn a spot in the top 500 of an international checkers tournament. Not bad when you consider that Blondie taught herself how to play without reading books, taking classes, or getting tips from experienced players. Even better when you realize that Blondie is a computer program and the rest of her persona is a product of the author's imagination." "Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by emulating the principles of Darwinian evolution and discovering innovative ways to approach the game. In this year of 2001, as we remember Arthur C. Clarke's predictions, David Fogel dramatically demonstrates how evolutionary computation may enable humans to create a thinking machine far more readily than the techniques traditionally used in the study of artificial intelligence."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Blondie 24
• Blondie twenty-four
• Playing at the edge of AI

Subject

• Artificial intelligence
• Computer checkers
• Evolutionary computation
• Machine learning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-392) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I : Setting the stage -- Intelligent machines : imitating life ; Deep Blue : a triumph for AI? ; Building an artificial brain ; Evolutionary computation : putting nature to work ; Blue Hawaii : a natural selection ; Checkers ; Chinook : the man-machine checkers champion ; Samuel's learning machine ; Samuel-Newell challenge -- II : Making of Blondie -- Evolving in the checkers environment ; In the zone ; Repeat performance ; New dimension ; Letting the genie out of the bottle ; Blondie24 -- Epilogue : Future of artificial intelligence -- Your honor, I object!

ISBN

1558607838

LCCN

^^2001094348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library