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an Australian games programmer, mathematician and computer scientist with a Ph.D. from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales University of New South Wales] (UNSW). He spent two years at the [[University of Alberta]] as a postdoc under [[Michael Bowling]], and now works in the UK as research scientist at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]] <ref>[http://jveness.info/about_me/default.html Joel Veness - About]</ref>. Joel is author of the chess engine [[Bodo]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=437038 BODO new OZ champion] by [[Ross Boyd]], [[CCC]], July 17, 2005</ref>, written in [[C]] and later [[Cpp|C++]] <ref>[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/%7Eshaun/chess/NC32006_-_List_of_Entries.html 2006 National Computer Chess Championships - List of Entries]</ref>. Joel Veness’ chess program [[Meep]] based on Bodo is one of the first master-level programs with an evaluation function that was learned entirely from self-play, by [[Meep#BootStrap|bootstrapping]] from deep searches <ref>[[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], [http://videolectures.net/nips09_veness_bfg/ video presentation]</ref> .