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[[FILE:GC_Pascutto.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html| Gian-Carlo Pascutto <ref>[http://old.csvn.nl/mei2003toernooi.html 3rd International CSVN Tournament Leiden, Netherlands, May 16-18, 2003], [[ICT 2003]]</ref> ]]

a Belgian <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=375276 Re: WCCC2004 on mainstream Italian newspaper] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2004</ref> computer scientist, and computer chess and [[Go]] programmer with further interests in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction sound recording and reproduction] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing digital signal processing] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/ Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software]</ref>.  Gian-Carlo is author of the free [[:Category:Open Source|open source]] chess and [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]] engine [[Sjeng]] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/indexold.html Sjeng : a chess-and-variants playing program]</ref>, the chess engine [[Deep Sjeng]], which emerged from the closed source Sjeng 12.7 branch <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/66707061247326df Sjeng 12.7 and 11.2 released] by [[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], January 2, 2002</ref> since 2003 commercial <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/261bfb217175033a Deep Sjeng 1.0 released] by [[Lex Loep|Lex]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], March 3, 2003</ref>, the experimental chess engine [[Stoofvlees]], and the Go playing program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=531 Leela] <ref>[http://sjeng.org/leela.html Sjeng - chess, audio and misc. software - Leela]</ref>.

More recently, after [[DeepMind]] published the [[AlphaGo#Zero|AlphaGo Zero]] paper <ref>[[David Silver]], [[Julian Schrittwieser]], [[Karen Simonyan]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Shih-Chieh Huang|Aja Huang]], [[Arthur Guez]], [[Thomas Hubert]], [[Lucas Baker]], [[Matthew Lai]], [[Adrian Bolton]], [[Yutian Chen]], [[Timothy Lillicrap]], [[Fan Hui]], [[Laurent Sifre]], [[George van den Driessche]], [[Thore Graepel]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2017'''). ''[https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24270.html Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 550, [https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2017-silver.pdf pdf]</ref>, Gian-Carlo Pascutto designed and initiated [[Leela Zero]] <ref>[https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero GitHub - gcp/leela-zero: Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper]</ref>, a Go playing entity using [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]] (but without Monte Carlo playouts) and a [[Neural Networks#Deep|deep]] [[Neural Networks#Residual|residual]] [[Neural Networks#Convolutional|convolutional neural network]] stack, trained by a public, distributed effort, as [[LCZeroLeela Chess Zero]] also adapted to chess <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66280 Announcing lczero] by [[Gary Linscott|Gary]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2018</ref> <ref>[https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess GitHub - glinscott/leela-chess: A chess adaption of GCP's Leela Zero]</ref>.