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'''David Allen McAllester''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Professor and Chief Academic Officer at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Technological_Institute_at_Chicago Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago]. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1978, 1979, and 1987 respectively. His research interests covers [[Learning|machine learning]] theory, the theory of [[Languages|programming languages]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning automated reasoning], [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] [[Planning|planning]], [[Games|computer game]] playing, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics computational linguistics]. In 1988, McAllester proposed the [[Best-First|best-first search]] algorithm [[Conspiracy Number Search]] which was adopted to [[Depth-First|depth-first]] in 1993 as [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]], published in 2002 in the [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal]] <ref>[[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''[[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database](pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/McAllester:David_A= DBLP: David A. McAllester]</ref>
==1985 ...==
* [[David McAllester]] ('''1985'''). ''A New Procedure for Growing Minimax Trees''. Technical Report, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
* [[David McAllester]] ('''1988'''). ''Conspiracy Numbers for Min-Max Search''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 35, No. 1 » [[Conspiracy Numbers]]
* [[Charles Elkan]], [[David McAllester]] ('''1988'''). ''Automated Inductive Reasoning about Logic Programs''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iclp/iclp88.html#ElkanM88 5. ICLP / SLP]
==1990 ...==
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''1993'''). ''Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search''. [http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/abc.ps ps (draft)] » [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]
* [[Matthew L. Ginsberg]], [[David McAllester]] ('''1994'''). ''GSAT and Dynamic Backtracking''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/kr/kr94.html#GinsbergM94 KR 1994] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WalkSAT WalkSAT from WIkipedia]</ref> » [[Backtracking]]
* [[Bart Selman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kautz Henry Kautz], [[David McAllester]] ('''1997'''). ''Ten Challenges in Propositional Reasoning and Search''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1997|IJCAI-97]], [http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-97-VOL1/PDF/009.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[David McAllester]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''2000'''). ''On the Convergence Rate of Good-Turing Estimators''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt2000.html#McAllesterS00 COLT 2000], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.340 CiteSeerX] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%E2%80%93Turing_frequency_estimation Good–Turing frequency estimation from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''1953'''). ''[http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/3-4/237 The population frequencies of species and the estimation of population parameters]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrika Biometrika], Vol. 40, Nos. 3-4</ref> <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00949650008812016 Turing’s anticipation of emprical Bayes in connection with the cryptanalysis of the naval enigma]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Statistical_Computation_and_Simulation Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation], Vol. 66, No. 2</ref>
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]] » [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]
* [[Peter Stone]], [[Robert Schapire]], [[Michael L. Littman]], [[Mathematician#JACsirik|János A. Csirik]], [[David McAllester]] ('''2003'''). ''[http://www.jair.org/papers/paper1200.html Decision-Theoretic Bidding Based on Learned Density Models in Simultaneous, Interacting Auctions]''. [http://www.jair.org/vol/vol19.html JAIR, Vol. 19], [https://www.jair.org/media/1200/live-1200-2212-jair.pdf pdf]
=External Links=
* [http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/ David McAllester's Personal WWW Page]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._McAllester David A. McAllester from Wikipedia]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=80263 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - David McAllester]
=References=
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'''David Allen McAllester''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Professor and Chief Academic Officer at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Technological_Institute_at_Chicago Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago]. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1978, 1979, and 1987 respectively. His research interests covers [[Learning|machine learning]] theory, the theory of [[Languages|programming languages]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_reasoning automated reasoning], [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] [[Planning|planning]], [[Games|computer game]] playing, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics computational linguistics]. In 1988, McAllester proposed the [[Best-First|best-first search]] algorithm [[Conspiracy Number Search]] which was adopted to [[Depth-First|depth-first]] in 1993 as [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]], published in 2002 in the [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal]] <ref>[[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''[[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database](pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/McAllester:David_A= DBLP: David A. McAllester]</ref>
==1985 ...==
* [[David McAllester]] ('''1985'''). ''A New Procedure for Growing Minimax Trees''. Technical Report, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
* [[David McAllester]] ('''1988'''). ''Conspiracy Numbers for Min-Max Search''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 35, No. 1 » [[Conspiracy Numbers]]
* [[Charles Elkan]], [[David McAllester]] ('''1988'''). ''Automated Inductive Reasoning about Logic Programs''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iclp/iclp88.html#ElkanM88 5. ICLP / SLP]
==1990 ...==
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''1993'''). ''Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search''. [http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/abc.ps ps (draft)] » [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]
* [[Matthew L. Ginsberg]], [[David McAllester]] ('''1994'''). ''GSAT and Dynamic Backtracking''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/kr/kr94.html#GinsbergM94 KR 1994] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WalkSAT WalkSAT from WIkipedia]</ref> » [[Backtracking]]
* [[Bart Selman]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kautz Henry Kautz], [[David McAllester]] ('''1997'''). ''Ten Challenges in Propositional Reasoning and Search''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1997|IJCAI-97]], [http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-97-VOL1/PDF/009.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[David McAllester]], [[Robert Schapire]] ('''2000'''). ''On the Convergence Rate of Good-Turing Estimators''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt2000.html#McAllesterS00 COLT 2000], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.340 CiteSeerX] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%E2%80%93Turing_frequency_estimation Good–Turing frequency estimation from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''1953'''). ''[http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/3-4/237 The population frequencies of species and the estimation of population parameters]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrika Biometrika], Vol. 40, Nos. 3-4</ref> <ref>[[Jack Good]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00949650008812016 Turing’s anticipation of emprical Bayes in connection with the cryptanalysis of the naval enigma]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Statistical_Computation_and_Simulation Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation], Vol. 66, No. 2</ref>
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]] » [[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]
* [[Peter Stone]], [[Robert Schapire]], [[Michael L. Littman]], [[Mathematician#JACsirik|János A. Csirik]], [[David McAllester]] ('''2003'''). ''[http://www.jair.org/papers/paper1200.html Decision-Theoretic Bidding Based on Learned Density Models in Simultaneous, Interacting Auctions]''. [http://www.jair.org/vol/vol19.html JAIR, Vol. 19], [https://www.jair.org/media/1200/live-1200-2212-jair.pdf pdf]
=External Links=
* [http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/ David McAllester's Personal WWW Page]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._McAllester David A. McAllester from Wikipedia]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=80263 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - David McAllester]
=References=
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