Welcome to the home page of the University of Alberta Computer Poker
Research Group. We are working
on creating computer programs that play poker better than any human
being, as a testbed for doing good science. There are many core
artificial intelligence and computer science problems that need to be
solved to make an excellent player, and games like poker are a fun and
controllable way to examine these problems. A longer explanation of
why we're looking at poker can be found in Darse Billing's M.Sc.
dissertation (Billings, 1995).
For even more detailed information about the past progress, you can look at the following publications which describe the various programs we've worked on over the years.
| 1997 | Loki | (Papp, 1998) | ||
| 1999 | Poki | (Davidson, 2002) | ||
| 2002 | PsOpti/Sparbot | (Billings et al., IJCAI 2003) | ||
| 2003 | Vexbot | (Schauenberg, 2006) | ||
| 2006 | Hyperborean | (Zinkevich et al., NIPS 2007) | ||
| 2007 | Polaris | (Johanson, 2007) | ||
| 2007 | Hyperborean No-Limit | (Schnizlein, 2009) | ||
| 2009 | Hyperborean Ring | (Abou Risk, 2009) | ||
| 2015 | Cepheus | (Bowling et al., Science 2015) |
We've made good progress but there are lots of interesting problems left and research is ongoing! To see what we are currently up to, check out the latest news for the CPRG. Follow @PolarisPoker