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Barney Darryl Pell, an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, angel investor, and technology and product strategist. He has worked for NASA, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, amongst others, founded Powerset and Moon Express, and is co-founder, chairman and CSO at LocoMobi. He received his Ph.D. in CS from Trinity College, University of Cambridge on the topic of Meta-Game Playing. His program Metagamer is able to play and learn the games of Chess, Checkers, noughts and crosses, Chinese Chess, and Shogi.

=Selected Publications=

1990 ...

 * Björn Gambäck, Manny Rayner, Barney Pell (1991). An Architecture for a Sophisticated Mechanical Bridge Player. Heuristic Programming in AI 2
 * Barney Pell (1991). Exploratory Learning in the Game of GO. Heuristic Programming in AI 2
 * Barney Pell (1992). Metagame: A New Challenge for Games and Learning. Heuristic Programming in AI 3
 * Barney Pell (1992). Metagame in Symmetric, Chess-Like Games. Heuristic Programming in AI 3
 * Barney Pell (1992). Logic Programming for General Game Playing. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 302.
 * Barney Pell (1993). Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing. Ph.D: thesis, Trinity College, Cambridge, pdf
 * Barney Pell (1993). A Strategic Metagame Player for General Chess-Like Games. AAAI Technical Report FS-93-02, pdf
 * Hitoshi Matsubara, Barney Pell (1994). Applying metagamer to Shogi. 1st Game Programming Workshop in Kanagawa, Japan
 * Barney Pell, Susan L. Epstein, Robert Levinson (1996). Introduction to the special issue on games: Structure and Learning. Computational Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 1
 * Barney Pell (1996). A Strategic Metagame Player for General Chess-Like Games. Computational Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 1

2000 ...

 * Michael Genesereth, Nathaniel Love, Barney Pell (2005). General Game Playing: Overview of the AAAI Competition. AI Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 2, pdf

=Forum Posts=
 * deriving piece values from mobility by Barney Pell, rgc, August 09, 1993
 * PhD Thesis Available: Meta-Game Playing by Barney Pell, rgc, January 06, 1994

=External Links=
 * Barney Pell from Wikipedia
 * Powerset - People - Barney Pell | Wikipedia
 * Barney Pell | LinkedIn
 * Barney Pell's Weblog Barney Pell's Weblog
 * Barney Pell’s Research on Computer Game Playing

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