The editor of the Computer Go Newsletter was David Erbach, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Western Kentucky University. I've been in contact with him in recent years through LinkedIn.com.
I believe the on-line PDFs represent the entire publication run of the Journal, but David could comment further. Ken Friedenbach On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Hideki Kato wrote: > David Doshay: <[email protected]>: >> I am unable to view those Google book pages. It says that either the page is >> unavailable for >> viewing or I have reached my viewing limit. >> >> Please include more info, and perhaps I can find the info in the Computer Go >> Newsletter. I >> subscribed way back when it was being published, although I lent a few out >> and they did not >> return. > > --- The paragraph --- > > Go is a deterministic game, but the large branching factor makes it > challeging. The key issues and carly literature in computer Go are > summerized by Bouzy and Cazenave (2001) and Mueller (2002). Up to 1997 > there were no competent Go programs. Now the best programs play most > of their moves at the master level: the only problems is that over > the course of a game they usually make at least one serious blunder > that allows a strong opponent to win. Whereas alpha-beta search > reigns in most games, many recent Go programs have adopted Monte > Carlo method based on the UCT (upper confidence bounds on trees) > scheme (Kocsis and Szepesvari, 2006). The strongest Go program > as of 2009 is Gelly and Silver's MoGo (Wang and Gelly, 2007; > Gelly and Silver, 2008). In August 2008, MoGo scored a surprising > win against top professional Myungwan Kim, albeit with MoGo > receiving a handicap of nine stones (about the equivalent of a queen > handicap in chess). Kim estimated MoGo's strength at 2-3 dan, the > log end of advanced amateur. For this match, MoGo was run on an > 800-processor 15 teraflop supercomputer (1000 times Deep Blue). A > few weeks later, MoGo, with only a five-stone handicap, won against > a 6-dan professional. In the 9 x 9 form of Go, MoGo is at > approximately the 1-dan professional level. Rapid advances are > likely as experimentation continues with new forms of Monte Carlo > search. The Computer Go Newsletter, published by the Computer Go > Association, describes current development. > > --- end of quote --- > > Notes: "challeging" in the second line is as of the original. > "Mueller" in the third line is M{\"u}ller (using an umlaut). Some > words are italic. Since the original is scaned picture, above quote > may have some errors, sigh :). > > Hideki > >> Cheers, >> David >> >> >> >> On 15, Feb 2011, at 12:45 AM, Hideki Kato wrote: >> >>> In a famous text book of AI, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern >>> Approach (3rd ed.) by Stuart Russell and Perter Norvig", there is a >>> description about recent development in computer Go (the link >>> below). >>> >> http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=8jZBksh-bUMC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Artificial+Intelligence:+A+Modern+Approach+mogo&source=bl&ots=dohwAgm6t5&sig=qVQkna6YrH47mYngB6e3GgZU9C0&hl=en&ei=3TdaTb6kHIemuQOErfStDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false >>> >>> At the end of the paragraph for "Go" (end of page 194 to the first >>> line of page 195), >>>> The Computer Go Newsletter, published by the Computer Go Association, >>>> describes current developments. >>> >>> I've Googled the newsletter and the association and found some old >>> issues (1986 - 1991) of the newsletter at <http://www.daogo.org/> but >>> nothing new. Does anyone know some about the newsletter and the >>> association, relevant to the description in the text book? >>> >>> Hideki >>> -- >>> Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Computer-go mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- > Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
