Rémi Coulom (born 1974) is a French computer scientist, once an assistant professor of computer science at the
Lille 3 University, and the developer of
Crazy Stone, a
computer Go
Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The best ...
program.
In 2006, Rémi Coulom described the application of the
Monte Carlo method
Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be ...
to
game-tree search and coined the term
Monte Carlo tree search
In computer science, Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is a heuristic search algorithm for some kinds of decision processes, most notably those employed in software that plays board games. In that context MCTS is used to solve the game tree.
MCTS ...
in his paper, “Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search.” He was one of the research supervisors of Aja Huang, who later led the
Google DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Goo ...
team that developed
AlphaGo
AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by the London-based DeepMind Technologies, an acquired subsidiary of Google. Subsequent versions of AlphaGo became increasingly powerful, including a version that c ...
. Coulom developed the Whole History Rating system
and founded goratings.org, a website providing unofficial historical ratings of
Go players
This article gives an overview of well-known Go professional, professional and amateur players of the board game Go (game), Go throughout the ages. The page has been divided into sections based on the era in which the Go players played and the ...
in the world.
References
External links
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Rémi Coulom's Go ratings
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1974 births
Living people
French computer scientists
Go (game) researchers