The University of Alberta GAMES Group Game-playing, Analytical methods, Minimax search and Empirical Studies

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Postdoctoral Fellow Position Available Artificial Intelligence in Commercial (Video) Games The University of Alberta GAMES Group (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games) has an opening for a postdoctoral fellow. The position is a two-year appointment. The successful applicant will work on one or more games-related projects relating to: AI scripting, path finding, motion capture data analysis, learning, planning, semi-automated game-play analysis/tuning and software testing, adaptive games, etc. This work will be done in conjunction with industrial partners Electronic Arts (sports games), BioWare (role-playing games), and Relic Entertainment (real-time strategy games). Commercial source code will be available for use in these projects. Locally developed software includes the Open Real-Time Strategy (ORTS) game engine, and ScriptEase scripting system (see http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games). The co-investigators are Michael Bowling, Michael Buro, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Dale Schuurmans, and Duane Szafron. The University of Alberta has an exceptional research group in artificial intelligence (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/labs/ai), including the Alberta Ingenuity Center for Machine Learning (http://www.aicml.ca). The GAMES Group is the largest of its kind in the world, and includes 7 faculty members, 2 postdoctoral fellows, 3 programmer/analysts, 20 graduate students, and 6 undergraduate students. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in computer science on a topic related to artificial intelligence with applications to games. Strong high-performance programming skills are required. Interested parties should send their resume, a description of their research interests, and the names and contact information for three references, to jonathan@cs.ualberta.ca.

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