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| Darse Billings <ref>At the semi-regular Tuesday Night Poker Tournament for chess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek geeks] (photo: Jim Roy), [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Photos/Darse/ Photo Gallery: Darse]</ref>
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'''Darse Billings''',<br/>
a Canadian computer scientist and computer games researcher and developer, affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London] based game development company ''Gamesys'' <ref>[https://www.gamesyscorporate.com/ Gamesys Corporate]</ref> <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsebillings/ Darse Billings - LinkedIn]</ref>, He holds a M.Sc. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2006 on [[Poker|Computer Poker]] from [[University of Alberta]].
His research interests cover not only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_chance games of chance] and incomplete information games like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors Roshambo], but also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_strategy abstract strategy games], in particular [[Lines of Action]], where his program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=239 Mona] won the de facto world championship in 2000, defeating all of the top human players, and winning every game it played <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/LOA/ Mona and YL's Lines of Action Page]</ref>.
Darse Billings is creator and director of ''The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions'' <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/rsbpc.html RoShamBo Programming Competition]</ref> , co-founder and lead architect for the ''University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group'' <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egames/poker/ CPRG Homepage]</ref> , and designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_poker_players pokerbots] ''Loki, Poki, Sparbot, Vexbot, Hyperborean, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_%28poker_bot%29 Polaris], Maxwell, Qeqbot'', et al., commercially licenced beside others to ''Poker Academy'' <ref>[http://www.poker-academy.com/company/ Poker Academy]</ref> and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacked_with_Daniel_Negreanu Stacked] <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Stuff/cv-brief.txt Curriculum vitae (brief) Dr. Darse Billings]</ref>.
=Selected Publication=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database](pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Billings:Darse.html DBLP: Darse Billings]</ref>
==1995 ...==
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''1995'''). ''Computer Poker''. M.Sc. thesis, [[University of Alberta]], [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egames/poker/publications/billings.msc.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Denis Papp]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''1998'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/PREVIOUS/Grad/Papers/ai98.poker.html Poker as a Testbed for Machine Intelligence Research]''. Department of Computing Science, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Denis Papp]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''1998'''). ''Opponent Modeling in Poker''. [[Conferences#AAAI-98|AAAI/IAAI 1998]], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1998/AAAI98-070.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content23-1.htm#THOUGHTS%20ON%20ROSHAMBO Thoughts on RoShamBo]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/LOA/ Mona and YL’s Lines of Action]''.
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2000'''). ''The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions''. [[5th Computer Olympiad#Workshop|5th Computer Olympiad Workshop]] <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html RoShamBo Programming Competitions]</ref>
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2002'''). ''The Challenge of Poker''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1-2, [https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~greenie/cs510/AIJ02.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2003'''). ''Vexbot wins Poker tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#26_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4]] » [[8th Computer Olympiad#Poker|8th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]] ('''2003'''). ''Search and Knowledge in Lines of Action''. [[Advances in Computer Games 10]], [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/skloa-sub.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Robert Holte]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Terence Schauenberg]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2003'''). ''Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2003|IJCAI-2003]], Winner of the IJCAI/AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award, [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Eholte/Publications/IJCAI2003.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Terence Schauenberg]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Michael Bowling]], [[Robert Holte]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11674399_2 Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games]''. [[CG 2004]]
==2005 ...==
* [[Finnegan Southey]], [[Michael Bowling]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Larson:Bryce Bryce Larson], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Piccione:Carmelo Carmelo Piccione], [[Neil Burch[[, [[Darse Billings]], [[D. Chris Rayner]] ('''2005, 2012'''). ''Bayes' Bluff: Opponent Modelling in Poker''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/uai/uai2005.html UAI 2005], [https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1411 arXiv:1207.1411]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Papers/billings-phd.html Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Morgan Kan]] ('''2006'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/divat-icgaj.html A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions]''. [[ICGA Journal#29_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3]]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments''. [[ICGA Journal#29_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4]] <ref>[https://en.chessbase.com/post/embracing-risk-in-tournaments Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments] by [[Darse Billings]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], December 14, 2006</ref>
=Forum Posts=
==1990 ...==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xAt5XlwwfAo/RxFzSVXj2xIJ rec.games.strategic] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], August 21, 1992
: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xAt5XlwwfAo/AMFWFZMYqYAJ Awari?] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], August 21, 1992 » [[Awari]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/DvHY9nF9yNI/gR6VSzTLaM4J Analysis: Please include your rating!] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], September 11, 1992
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/XzvmB6uHsK8/lB1r_B7sNMEJ how does go compare with chess?] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], July 25, 1994
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=334429 Shredder wins in Graz after controversy] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCC]], December 09, 2003 » [[Shredder]], [[WCCC 2003]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=337323 Shredder wins in Graz after controversy -- rebuttal] by [[Darse Billings]], [[CCC]], December 21, 2003
=External Links=
* [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/ Darse's garish blue-green homepage]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=223 Darse Billings' ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsebillings/ Darse Billings - LinkedIn]
* [https://en.chessbase.com/post/embracing-risk-in-tournaments Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments] by [[Darse Billings]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], December 14, 2006
* [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/no-limit-tnmt-primer.html Darse's No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Primer]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Researcher|Billings]]
[[Category:Poker Player|Billings]]
[[Category:Lines of Action Programmer|Billings]]
[[FILE:tnp-darse.jpg|border|right|thumb|260px|link=https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Photos/Darse/
| Darse Billings <ref>At the semi-regular Tuesday Night Poker Tournament for chess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek geeks] (photo: Jim Roy), [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Photos/Darse/ Photo Gallery: Darse]</ref>
]]
'''Darse Billings''',<br/>
a Canadian computer scientist and computer games researcher and developer, affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London] based game development company ''Gamesys'' <ref>[https://www.gamesyscorporate.com/ Gamesys Corporate]</ref> <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsebillings/ Darse Billings - LinkedIn]</ref>, He holds a M.Sc. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2006 on [[Poker|Computer Poker]] from [[University of Alberta]].
His research interests cover not only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_chance games of chance] and incomplete information games like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors Roshambo], but also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_strategy abstract strategy games], in particular [[Lines of Action]], where his program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=239 Mona] won the de facto world championship in 2000, defeating all of the top human players, and winning every game it played <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/LOA/ Mona and YL's Lines of Action Page]</ref>.
Darse Billings is creator and director of ''The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions'' <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/rsbpc.html RoShamBo Programming Competition]</ref> , co-founder and lead architect for the ''University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group'' <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egames/poker/ CPRG Homepage]</ref> , and designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_poker_players pokerbots] ''Loki, Poki, Sparbot, Vexbot, Hyperborean, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_%28poker_bot%29 Polaris], Maxwell, Qeqbot'', et al., commercially licenced beside others to ''Poker Academy'' <ref>[http://www.poker-academy.com/company/ Poker Academy]</ref> and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacked_with_Daniel_Negreanu Stacked] <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Stuff/cv-brief.txt Curriculum vitae (brief) Dr. Darse Billings]</ref>.
=Selected Publication=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database](pdf)</ref> <ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Billings:Darse.html DBLP: Darse Billings]</ref>
==1995 ...==
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''1995'''). ''Computer Poker''. M.Sc. thesis, [[University of Alberta]], [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Egames/poker/publications/billings.msc.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Denis Papp]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''1998'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/PREVIOUS/Grad/Papers/ai98.poker.html Poker as a Testbed for Machine Intelligence Research]''. Department of Computing Science, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Denis Papp]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''1998'''). ''Opponent Modeling in Poker''. [[Conferences#AAAI-98|AAAI/IAAI 1998]], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1998/AAAI98-070.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content23-1.htm#THOUGHTS%20ON%20ROSHAMBO Thoughts on RoShamBo]''. [[ICGA Journal#23_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/LOA/ Mona and YL’s Lines of Action]''.
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2000'''). ''The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions''. [[5th Computer Olympiad#Workshop|5th Computer Olympiad Workshop]] <ref>[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html RoShamBo Programming Competitions]</ref>
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2002'''). ''The Challenge of Poker''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1-2, [https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~greenie/cs510/AIJ02.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2003'''). ''Vexbot wins Poker tournament''. [[ICGA Journal#26_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4]] » [[8th Computer Olympiad#Poker|8th Computer Olympiad]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Yngvi Björnsson]] ('''2003'''). ''Search and Knowledge in Lines of Action''. [[Advances in Computer Games 10]], [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/skloa-sub.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Robert Holte]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Terence Schauenberg]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2003'''). ''Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2003|IJCAI-2003]], Winner of the IJCAI/AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award, [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Eholte/Publications/IJCAI2003.pdf pdf]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Aaron Davidson]], [[Terence Schauenberg]], [[Neil Burch]], [[Michael Bowling]], [[Robert Holte]], [[Jonathan Schaeffer]], [[Duane Szafron]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11674399_2 Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games]''. [[CG 2004]]
==2005 ...==
* [[Finnegan Southey]], [[Michael Bowling]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Larson:Bryce Bryce Larson], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Piccione:Carmelo Carmelo Piccione], [[Neil Burch[[, [[Darse Billings]], [[D. Chris Rayner]] ('''2005, 2012'''). ''Bayes' Bluff: Opponent Modelling in Poker''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/uai/uai2005.html UAI 2005], [https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1411 arXiv:1207.1411]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Edarse/Papers/billings-phd.html Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Alberta]]
* [[Darse Billings]], [[Morgan Kan]] ('''2006'''). ''[https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/divat-icgaj.html A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions]''. [[ICGA Journal#29_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3]]
* [[Darse Billings]] ('''2006'''). ''On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments''. [[ICGA Journal#29_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4]] <ref>[https://en.chessbase.com/post/embracing-risk-in-tournaments Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments] by [[Darse Billings]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], December 14, 2006</ref>
=Forum Posts=
==1990 ...==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xAt5XlwwfAo/RxFzSVXj2xIJ rec.games.strategic] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], August 21, 1992
: [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/xAt5XlwwfAo/AMFWFZMYqYAJ Awari?] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], August 21, 1992 » [[Awari]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/DvHY9nF9yNI/gR6VSzTLaM4J Analysis: Please include your rating!] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], September 11, 1992
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.chess/XzvmB6uHsK8/lB1r_B7sNMEJ how does go compare with chess?] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgc]], July 25, 1994
==2000 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=334429 Shredder wins in Graz after controversy] by [[Darse Billings]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCC]], December 09, 2003 » [[Shredder]], [[WCCC 2003]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=337323 Shredder wins in Graz after controversy -- rebuttal] by [[Darse Billings]], [[CCC]], December 21, 2003
=External Links=
* [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/ Darse's garish blue-green homepage]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=223 Darse Billings' ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsebillings/ Darse Billings - LinkedIn]
* [https://en.chessbase.com/post/embracing-risk-in-tournaments Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments] by [[Darse Billings]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], December 14, 2006
* [https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/Papers/no-limit-tnmt-primer.html Darse's No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Primer]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
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[[Category:Poker Player|Billings]]
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