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[[FILE:alanblair.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/|Alan Blair <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/ Alan Blair's Home Page]</ref> ]]
'''Alan David Blair''',<br/>
an Australian computer scientist, Ph.D. in Mathematics from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] <ref>[[Alan Blair]] ('''1994'''). ''Path Integrals on Ultrametric Spaces''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], advisor [[Mathematician#GCRota|Gian-Carlo Rota]]</ref>, and senior lecturer at School of Computer Science and Engineering <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/ UNSW - School of Computer Science and Engineering]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales University of New South Wales] (UNSW). His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution co-evolutionary] [[Learning|learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_robot mobile robots] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing language processing].
He is author of the [[Go]] playing program ''thcGo'', using a [[Neural Networks|recurrent cellular neural network]] <ref>[http://www.computer-go.info/db/oprog.php?a=thcGo computer-go.info - Details of Program: thcGo]</ref> <ref>[http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/24/ 24th KGS Computer Go Tournament]</ref>.
=Duchess=
[[FILE:makeduchess.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/make.html|Duchess boad <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/make.html Duchess™ make your own]</ref> ]]
Alan Blair is co-inventor of the a multi-player chess variant board game ''Duchess ™'' <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/ Welcome to the Duchess™ page!]</ref>,
which is played between two teams of two or three players, and is similar to Chess but with extra pieces, larger board size and significantly greater [[Branching Factor|branching factor]].
As elaborated in a recent paper along with [[Diogo Real]] <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Real:Diogo Diogo Real], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743850/ Learning a multi-player chess game with TreeStrap]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cec/cec2016.html CEC 2016]</ref>, [[Meep#TreeStrap|TreeStrap]] was used to [[Automated Tuning|determine the weights]] of [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features inside an [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] search.
A superior performance was achieved with an incremental approach, where the [[Material|material]] values are learned first, followed by the attacking and defending values, and finally the [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square values]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Blair:Alan dblp: Alan Blair]</ref>
==1994 ...==
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''1994'''). ''Path Integrals on Ultrametric Spaces''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], advisor [[Mathematician#GCRota|Gian-Carlo Rota]]
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''1999'''). ''Co-evolutionary learning - lessons for human education''? Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society, Newcastle, Australia, [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/pub/ocs_clhe.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2007'''). ''Effective Use of Transposition Tables in Stochastic Game Tree Search''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cig/cig2007.html CIG 2007], [http://jveness.info/publications/cig2007%20-%20effective%20use%20of%20transposition%20tables%20in%20stochastic%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf]
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''2008'''). ''Learning position evaluation for Go with Internal Symmetry Networks''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cig/cig2008.html CIG 2008]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[David Silver]], [[William Uther]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3722-bootstrapping-from-game-tree-search Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search]''. [http://jveness.info/publications/nips2009%20-%20bootstrapping%20from%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Diogo Real]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743850/ Learning a multi-player chess game with TreeStrap]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cec/cec2016.html CEC 2016]
=External Links=
* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/ Alan Blair's Home Page]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=74915 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Alan Blair]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Blair%2C+Alan Blair, Alan] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
=References=
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[[FILE:alanblair.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/|Alan Blair <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/ Alan Blair's Home Page]</ref> ]]
'''Alan David Blair''',<br/>
an Australian computer scientist, Ph.D. in Mathematics from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] <ref>[[Alan Blair]] ('''1994'''). ''Path Integrals on Ultrametric Spaces''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], advisor [[Mathematician#GCRota|Gian-Carlo Rota]]</ref>, and senior lecturer at School of Computer Science and Engineering <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/ UNSW - School of Computer Science and Engineering]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales University of New South Wales] (UNSW). His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution co-evolutionary] [[Learning|learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_robot mobile robots] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing language processing].
He is author of the [[Go]] playing program ''thcGo'', using a [[Neural Networks|recurrent cellular neural network]] <ref>[http://www.computer-go.info/db/oprog.php?a=thcGo computer-go.info - Details of Program: thcGo]</ref> <ref>[http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/24/ 24th KGS Computer Go Tournament]</ref>.
=Duchess=
[[FILE:makeduchess.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/make.html|Duchess boad <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/make.html Duchess™ make your own]</ref> ]]
Alan Blair is co-inventor of the a multi-player chess variant board game ''Duchess ™'' <ref>[http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/duchess/ Welcome to the Duchess™ page!]</ref>,
which is played between two teams of two or three players, and is similar to Chess but with extra pieces, larger board size and significantly greater [[Branching Factor|branching factor]].
As elaborated in a recent paper along with [[Diogo Real]] <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Real:Diogo Diogo Real], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743850/ Learning a multi-player chess game with TreeStrap]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cec/cec2016.html CEC 2016]</ref>, [[Meep#TreeStrap|TreeStrap]] was used to [[Automated Tuning|determine the weights]] of [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features inside an [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] search.
A superior performance was achieved with an incremental approach, where the [[Material|material]] values are learned first, followed by the attacking and defending values, and finally the [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square values]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Blair:Alan dblp: Alan Blair]</ref>
==1994 ...==
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''1994'''). ''Path Integrals on Ultrametric Spaces''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], advisor [[Mathematician#GCRota|Gian-Carlo Rota]]
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''1999'''). ''Co-evolutionary learning - lessons for human education''? Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society, Newcastle, Australia, [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/pub/ocs_clhe.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2007'''). ''Effective Use of Transposition Tables in Stochastic Game Tree Search''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cig/cig2007.html CIG 2007], [http://jveness.info/publications/cig2007%20-%20effective%20use%20of%20transposition%20tables%20in%20stochastic%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf]
* [[Alan Blair]] ('''2008'''). ''Learning position evaluation for Go with Internal Symmetry Networks''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cig/cig2008.html CIG 2008]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[David Silver]], [[William Uther]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3722-bootstrapping-from-game-tree-search Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search]''. [http://jveness.info/publications/nips2009%20-%20bootstrapping%20from%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Diogo Real]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743850/ Learning a multi-player chess game with TreeStrap]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cec/cec2016.html CEC 2016]
=External Links=
* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~blair/ Alan Blair's Home Page]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=74915 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Alan Blair]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Blair%2C+Alan Blair, Alan] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
=References=
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