Andrew Rae is the creator of this project and this website and is solely responsible for the contents of both. He is a computer science major at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and expects to graduate in January 2002. To contact him with praise or criticism, send e-mail to amr22@cornell.edu.

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.

More Information about machine learning and artificial intelligence can be found in the references.