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'''Hendrik Jacob (Jaap) van den Herik''',<br/>
a Dutch Professor and AI-Scientist. Besides being Full Professor in Computer Science at [[Maastricht University]], since September 2008 at [http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/ticc/ ''Tilburg Centre for Creative Computing (TiCC)] '' and [http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/schools/humanities/ ''Tilburg School of Humanities] '' at [[Tilburg University]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilburg Tilburg] <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2008'''). ''[[ICGA Journal#FromMaastrichttoTilburg|From Maastricht to Tilburg]] ''. [http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content31-2.htm [ICGA Journal#31_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2 - June 2008] From Maastricht to Tilburg]</ref>, and since 2014 at ''Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science '' (LIACS)<ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2013'''). ''[[ICGA Journal#FromTilburgtoLeiden|From Tilburg to Leiden]]''. [[ICGA Journal#36_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4]]</ref>, [[Leiden University]], he further holds a named professorial chair from Leiden University <ref>[https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/jaap-van-den-herik#tab-1 Jaap van den Herik - Leiden University]</ref>, Department of Law, with specialization in Computer and Law since 1988.
In 1980 Van den Herik was co-founder of the [[CSVN]] <ref>[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap_van_den_Herik Jaap van den Herik from Wikipedia.nl] (Dutch)</ref> , the Dutch Computer Chess Association. From 1983 until 2015 Jaap was Editor-in-Chief of the [[ICGA Journal]]. Van den Herik has been the enthusiastic leader of several program and organizing committees, such as [[Conferences#AdvancesinComputerGames|Advances in Computer Games]] and others - also Editor of associated publications as available in the [http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/organisation/books/ ICGA bookstore]. Jaap van den Herik is co-author of the chess programs [[Pion]], [[Dutch]] and [[Much]], participating at various World Computer Chess Championships in the 80s <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=304 Jaap van den Herik's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> . Since the early 90s Jaap is Tournament director, organizer and arbiter of [[ICCA]] and [[ICGA]] computer chess tournaments, such as the [[World Computer Chess Championship]], [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship]] and the [[Computer Olympiad]].
