Alberta team studies artificial intelligence with poker

Computer scientists have not yet figured out how to write programs that can make informed decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information, said Jonathan Schaeffer, chair of the University of Alberta's computer science department and Canada Research Chair in artificial intelligence.

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"The skills that make human poker players really good are skills that don't seem to match well with what computers can do," said Schaeffer. Schaeffer was part of the team that designed Hyperborean, a poker-playing computer that recently went undefeated at two tournaments hosted by the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

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Proud poker parents

Last week, Ira and Ellen found themselves in the middle of high-stakes heaven. They had jetted from the relative calm of The Villages and when they stepped off the plane, they were on the end of the famed Las Vegas Strip where the World Series of Poker was already rocking and rolling.

But this was more than just a pleasure trip for the Friedmans. They had traveled to Sin City to spend some quality time with their 38-year-old son Perry. Perry is his parents pride. He has a degree from Stanford University and is one of the most sought-after computer programmers in the world of bits and bytes. Hes also a professional poker player who has won more than $500,000 playing the game and owns a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

UA Student Wins More Than $300,000 In Vegas Poker Tournament

A University of Alabama student earned more than 300-thousand dollars with a skill not taught in the classroom: Texas Hold 'Em. Rob Berryman parlayed a 16 dollar venture into a six-figure bonanza at the World Series of Poker's event in Las Vegas. His story began three weeks ago when he spent that 16 dollars to enter and win his first online tournament. That earned him a place in an online tournament, where he won a buy-in to the Las Vegas tournament.

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After five days of play, the 21-year-old finished 33rd out of 8-thousand 773 hopefuls. He earned 329-thousand 865 dollars. The grand prize was 12 (M) million. But don't think Berryman is going to turn his card-playing hobby into a career. His father, Steve Berryman, says his son, a senior finance major, plans to return to Alabama to get his degree.

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