This 12 months, Jonathan Schaeffer winds up his 40-year vocation as a professor in the Division of Computing Science. Jonathan is an pro in and pioneer in synthetic intelligence (AI) at the College of Alberta and a fellow of both the American Association for Synthetic Intelligence and the Royal Society of Canada. As a past dean of the School of Science, he expanded the U of A’s popularity as a leader in AI and led U of A’s advancement of massive open on the web courses (MOOCs). His quite a few achievements involve the exploration of AI’s potential by means of the lens of online games, which include a even now-unbeaten computer system software for playing checkers, to co-founding the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Listen to from Jonathan as he demonstrates on his last lecture, his adore of instructing, how to get ready for AI and his entire-time leap