Academic (a)Musings

Thank you for visiting my blog. Here I talk about things that are of academic or personal interest to me. I welcome your feedback.
Jonathan Schaeffer (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta)

Monday, 8 August 2022

Whydunit?

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There are two keys to every good detective story: figuring out who perpetrated the crime and uncovering why they did it. Agatha Christie bui...

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Sunday, 10 January 2021

Perhaps a Different Perspective on Online Teaching

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In March last year, the pandemic dramatically struck close to home when universities across Canada (and probably in many places around the w...

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Saturday, 9 January 2021

The Longest Ongoing Experiment in Computing Science History

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On August 31, 1970 a historic computer science event began. It happened in a downtown New York hotel as part of an academic conference. The ...

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Computer Olympiad 2020

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In August 2019, I was proud to be appointed the President of the International Computer Games Association ( ICGA ). The ICGA started out in ...

Friday, 11 September 2020

Market of Monsters -- Complete!

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A proud father says congratulations to Rebecca Schaeffer! The final book in her Market of Monsters trilogy is now available. She started wo...

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Jonathan Schaeffer: I am privileged to be a Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

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