Evolutionary Programming and the Game of Checkers was a 2-credit semester project for Cornell's CS 473 - Practicum in A.I., Fall 2000. It was presented at BOOM (Bits On Our Mind) 2001, an annual showcase of work by Cornell graduate and undergraduate students in computer science and electrical engineering. For a quick overview of the project in slide form, click here.
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