(PhysOrg.com) -- Texas Hold'em poker has exploded in popularity over the past few years. Its popularity has extended to academic researchers, who are intrigued by the challenges of probabilities and ...

Computers have figured out how to win at chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe, and now, a computer program has conquered the game of poker. A research team led by Michael Bowling, a professor of computer ...

Scientists at the University of Alberta are cracking away at the complexities of artificial intelligence with their new “DeepStack” system, which can not only play a round of poker with you, but walk ...

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Sam Ganzfried, a professor in FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, helped devise a computer that competed against top online players in head-to-head matches. Tami Weingartner For game theorists ...

A computer program that taught itself to play poker has created nearly the best possible strategy for one version of the game, showing the value of techniques that may prove useful to help ...