Actually there might be. Wasn't one of Ralph Nader's Golden Fleece
awards given to the government funded Cray Blitz by Hanz Berliner? I
believe that there are many government agencies that are hessitant to
fund game research with taxpayer dollars.
In the late 1980s I tried to get some government funding to help
support a chess learning program. After the talk, one of the people in
the audience asked me if I had prepared my Golden Fleece award
acceptance speech.
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:05 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
Various branches of the US government (including NIST) have developed
a very successful approach to funding research. Set up a measurable
competition (such as we already have with CGOS) and then fund research
groups through a series of rounds, with the results of each funding
round being influenced by the group's success at the measurable
competition in the previous rounds.
This obviously works better in some fields than in others, but there's
no reason it couldn't work for go.
cheers
stuart
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not the author of a strong program, but I'll throw another
item into
the list: more incentive. For many, computer go competes for
time with
many other hobbies and perhaps even a day job.
The big Ing prize brought many people into computer-go, all working
in
parallel, competing, to make mediocre programs. And plenty of
progress
has been made in the past few years, without any big money being
offered. Could it be that the lack of financial incentive makes
people
willing to share their work and knowledge, and that that is behind
recent progress? (I don't know, it could just be coincidence.)
Darren
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