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{{short description|Canadian researcher and professor}} {{about||the philosopher|Jonathan Schaffer|the musician|Jon Schaffer}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jonathan Schaeffer | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = Jonathan Schaeffer.jpg | image_size = | caption = June, 2014 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}} | birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | fields = [[Artificial intelligence]]<br/>[[Heuristic search]] | workplaces = [[University of Alberta]] | alma_mater = [[University of Waterloo]]<br/>[[University of Toronto]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | thesis_title = Experiments in Search and Knowledge | thesis_year = 1986 | thesis_url = https://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca:443/WATERLOO:search_tab:vtug943855 | known_for = [[Chinook (draughts player)]], [[Polaris (poker bot)]] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{ublist|[[AAAI]] Fellow {{small|(2000)}}|[[Alberta Centennial Medal]] {{small|(2005)}}}} | religion = | signature = | footnotes = | website = {{URL|webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan}} }} '''Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer''' {{post-nominals|FRSC}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graney |first=Juris |date=3 August 2018 |title=Dean of science resigns from University of Alberta |work=edmontonjournal |url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/university-of-alberta-dean-of-science-resigns-post-citing-actions-of-university-leadership |access-date=2023-12-04 |publisher=[[Edmonton Journal]] |archive-date=2021-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919174027/https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/university-of-alberta-dean-of-science-resigns-post-citing-actions-of-university-leadership |url-status=live }}</ref> (born 1957) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] researcher and professor at the [[University of Alberta]] and the former [[Canada Research Chair]] in Artificial Intelligence. He led the team that wrote [[Chinook Checkers Program|Chinook]], the world's strongest [[English draughts|American checkers]] player, after some relatively good results in writing [[computer chess]] programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing [[Computer poker players|computer poker]] systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created [[Polaris (poker bot)|Polaris]], a program designed to play the [[Texas Hold'em]] variant of poker. He is a Founder of Onlea,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.onlea.org/#team | title=Our Team | accessdate=2014-10-10 | publisher=Onlea Corporation | archive-date=2014-10-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017165815/http://www.onlea.org/#team | url-status=live }}</ref> which produces online learning experiences.
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