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an American computer scientist and computer games researcher and programmer, who balances a mixture of software development and research within the financial industry <ref>[http://www.kingpinchess.net/2015/07/arimaa-game-over/ Arimaa: Game Over?] by [[Andy Lewis]], [http://www.kingpinchess.net/ Kingpin Chess Magazine], July 11, 2015</ref>.
He defended his B.Sc. degree in 2011 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College Harvard College], [[Harvard University]], delivering the thesis ''Move Ranking and Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa'' <ref>[[David J. Wu]] ('''2011'''). ''Move Ranking and Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa''. B.Sc. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College Harvard College], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts], [http://arimaa.com/arimaa/papers/DavidWu/djwuthesis.pdf pdf]</ref>.
David J. Wu is author of the [[Arimaa]] bot '''Sharp''', and inspired by [[AlphaZero]], the [[Go]] playing program '''KataGo''' <ref>[https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo GitHub - lightvector/KataGo: GTP engine and self-play learning in Go]</ref> <ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/lczero/c/gecAk5DflmE/m/lUGWpjZXBwAJ KataGo] by [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Computer Chess Forums|LCZero Forum]], March 16, 2021</ref>.
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