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Mark G. Brockington, a Canadian computer scientist, computer game programmer and Poker player. He received a B.Math. degree in pure mathematics with computer science from the University of Waterloo, in 1992, and graduated at the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. in computer science with a thesis about parallel search, the Asynchronous Parallel Game-Tree Search APHID algorithm. The Othello program Keyano was part of his thesis research, and along with Paul Hsieh he co-authored the Othello program QED. He was affiliated with BioWare developing commercial computer games and led the development of a Poker platform and game engine at Gamesys.

=Selected Publications=

1990 ...

 * Mark Brockington, Joe Culberson (1993). Camouflaging independent sets in quasi-random graphs. Cliques, Coloring, and Satisfiability 1993
 * Mark Brockington (1994). An Implementation of the Young Brothers Wait Concept. Internal report, University of Alberta.
 * Mark Brockington (1994). Improvements to Parallel Alpha-Beta Algorithms. Technical report, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta

1995 ...

 * Mark Brockington, Jonathan Schaeffer (1996). The APHID Parallel αβ Search Algorithm. Technical Report 96-07, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, pdf from CiteSeerX
 * Mark Brockington (1996). A Taxonomy of Parallel Game-Tree Search Algorithms. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19: No. 3
 * Yngvi Björnsson, Mark Brockington, Andreas Junghanns, Aske Plaat (1996). Report on the Advances in Computer Chess 8 Conference. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 » Advances in Computer Chess 8
 * Andreas Junghanns, Jonathan Schaeffer, Mark Brockington, Yngvi Björnsson, Tony Marsland (1997). Diminishing Returns for Additional Search in Chess. Advances in Computer Chess 8, pdf
 * Mark Brockington, Jonathan Schaeffer (1997). APHID Game-Tree Search. Advances in Computer Chess 8
 * Mark Brockington (1997). KEYANO Unplugged - The Construction of an Othello Program. Technical Report TR-97-05, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
 * Mark Brockington (1998). Asynchronous Parallel Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, pdf
 * Mark Brockington, Jonathan Schaeffer (1999). APHID: Asynchronous Parallel Game-Tree Search. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, pdf from CiteSeerX

2000 ...

 * Mark Brockington, Jonathan Schaeffer (2000). APHID: Asynchronous Parallel Game-Tree Search. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 60, No. 2
 * Mark Brockington (2000). Computer Chess Meets Planning. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2

=External Links=
 * Mark Brockington | LinkedIn
 * Mark Brockington - Faculty of Science - University of Alberta
 * Mark Brockington - Bio Page
 * APHID Parallel Game-Tree Search Library
 * Mark Brockington: Hendon Mob Poker Database

=References=

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