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Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon

Posted By: Rick Janowski
Date: Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:55 a.m.

In Response To: Hall Of Fame (Art Grater)

Gerry Tesauro of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center wrote the first expert-strength backgammon program, TD-Gammon, which learned by self-play. TD-Gammon set the pattern for all strong backgammon programs since then, so it’s historically very important.

http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/gammon/td-gammon.html

Gerry Tesauro's pioneering work in developing neural network bots has probably had the single biggest impact on the modern game. Ignoring his contribution because his association with backgammon was only for a few years, is like relegating Mozart, Schubert and Bellini as minor composers because they died in their 30s!

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• Hall Of Fame
  Jake Jacobs -- Monday, 26 September 2016, at 2:48 a.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Monday, 26 September 2016, at 5:46 p.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Monday, 26 September 2016, at 5:51 p.m.
    • Hall Of Fame
      Barry Silliman -- Monday, 26 September 2016, at 7:05 p.m.
      • Hall Of Fame
        David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 12:09 a.m.
    • Hall Of Fame
      Jake Jacobs -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:41 a.m.
      • Hall Of Fame
        Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 5:05 a.m.
    • Hall Of Fame - David Rockwell
      Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:42 p.m.
  • Hall Of Fame
    Art Grater -- Monday, 26 September 2016, at 6:55 p.m.
    • Hall Of Fame
      Jake Jacobs -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:29 a.m.
    • Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon
      Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:55 a.m.
      • Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon
        Casper Van der Tak -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 7:38 a.m.
        • Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon
          Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 10:56 a.m.
          • Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon
            Casper Van der Tak -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 12:35 p.m.
            • Hall Of Fame - Gerry Tesauro Father of TD-Gammon
              Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:19 p.m.
  • Hall Of Fame - Instead of posting here
    Bill Finneran -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 2:21 p.m.
    • Hall Of Fame - Instead of posting here
      Rick Janowski -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 4:47 p.m.
      • Hall Of Fame - Instead of posting here
        Bill Finneran -- Tuesday, 27 September 2016, at 5:06 p.m.