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Jacques Pitrat, (February 27, 1934 – October 14, 2019) was a French AI-researcher and professor emeritus at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris. His research interests include General Game Playing, Learning and Metaknowledge.

=Pitrat's Chess Program= In the 70s, Jacques Pitrat worked on a experimental chess program that tried to limit the width of the tree, so that it can increase its depth. The idea is to generate a node if and only if there is a reason to do so. The program performs a very sophisticated analysis of the given position, to generate a set of plans. Each plan consists of a sequence of moves considered by the search.

=Selected Publications=

1966 ...

 * Jacques Pitrat (1966). Réalisation de programmes de démonstration de théorèmes utilisant des méthodes heuristiques. Ph.D. thesis, University of Paris, advisor Jean Ville
 * Jacques Pitrat (1968) Realization of a general game-playing program. IFIP Congress (2) 1570-1574

1970 ...

 * Jacques Pitrat (1971). A General Game Playing Program. in Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Programming (eds. Findler and Meltzer), pp. 125-155. Edinburgh University Press
 * Jacques Pitrat (1976). A Program to Learn to Play Chess. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 399-419. Academic Press Ltd. London, UK. ISBN 0-12-170950-7.
 * Jacques Pitrat (1976). Realization of a Program Learning to Find Combinations at Chess. Computer Oriented Learning Processes (ed. J. Simon). Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands.
 * Hans Berliner, Richard Greenblatt, Jacques Pitrat, Arthur Samuel, David Slate (1977). Panel on Computer Game Playing. IJCAI 1977, pdf
 * Jacques Pitrat (1977). A Chess Combination Program Which Uses Plans. Artificial Intelligence, Vol 8, No. 3
 * Jacques Pitrat (1979). A Program which Uses Plans for Finding Combinations in Chess. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 2

1980 ...

 * Jacques Pitrat (1980). The Behaviour of a Chess Combination Program using Plans. Advances in Computer Chess 2
 * Jacques Pitrat (1988). An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Understanding Natural Language. North Oxford Academic

1990 ...

 * Jacques Pitrat (1990). Métaconnaissance - futur de l'intelligence artificielle.
 * Jacques Pitrat (1995). AI Systems Are Dumb Because AI Researchers Are Too Clever. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 27, No. 3
 * Jacques Pitrat (1998). Games: The Next Challenge. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3

2000 ...

 * Jacques Pitrat (2009). Artificial Beings: The Conscience of a Conscious Machine. Wiley
 * Tristan Cazenave (2020). Jacques Pitrat (1934–2019): An obituary. ICGA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1

=External Links=
 * Jacques Pitrat from Wikipedia.fr (French)
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Jacques Pitrat
 * Bootstrapping Artificial Intelligence
 * My view on Artificial Intelligence | Just another WordPress site
 * CTO : Jacques Pitrat

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