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[[FILE:joelveness.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://jveness.info/about_me/default.html| Joel Veness <ref>[http://jveness.info/about_me/default.html Joel Veness - About]</ref> ]]

'''Joel Veness''',<br/>
an Australian games programmer, mathematician and computer scientist with a Ph.D. from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales University of New South Wales] (UNSW). He spent two years at the [[University of Alberta]] as a postdoc under [[Mathematician#MBowling|Michael Bowling]], and now works in the UK as research scientist at [[Google]] [[DeepMind]] <ref>[http://jveness.info/about_me/default.html Joel Veness - About]</ref>.

Joel is author of the chess engine [[Bodo]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=437038 BODO new OZ champion] by [[Ross Boyd]], [[CCC]], July 17, 2005</ref>, written in [[C]] and later [[Cpp|C++]] <ref>[http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/%7Eshaun/chess/NC32006_-_List_of_Entries.html 2006 National Computer Chess Championships - List of Entries]</ref>. Joel Veness’ chess program [[Meep]] based on Bodo is one of the first master-level programs with an evaluation function that was learned entirely from self-play, by [[Meep#BootStrap|bootstrapping]] from deep searches <ref>[[Joel Veness]], [[David Silver]], [[William Uther]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3722-bootstrapping-from-game-tree-search Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search]''. [http://jveness.info/publications/nips2009%20-%20bootstrapping%20from%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf], [http://videolectures.net/nips09_veness_bfg/ video presentation]</ref> .

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://jveness.info/publications/default.html Joel Veness - Publications]</ref> <ref>[http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/3757276/joel-veness Joel Veness] from [[Microsoft Academic Search]]</ref>
==2006 ...==
* [[Joel Veness]] ('''2006'''). ''Expectimax Enhancements for Stochastic Game Players''. BSc-Thesis, [http://jveness.info/publications/thesis.pdf pdf]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2007'''). ''Effective Use of Transposition Tables in Stochastic Game Tree Search''. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, [http://jveness.info/publications/cig2007%20-%20effective%20use%20of%20transposition%20tables%20in%20stochastic%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[David Silver]], [[William Uther]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2009'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3722-bootstrapping-from-game-tree-search Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search]''. [http://jveness.info/publications/nips2009%20-%20bootstrapping%20from%20game%20tree%20search.pdf pdf] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?start=0&t=31667 A paper about parameter tuning] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], January 12, 2010</ref>, [http://videolectures.net/nips09_veness_bfg/ video presentation]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Kee Siong Ng]], [[Marcus Hutter]], [[David Silver]] ('''2009'''). ''A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation'', [http://jveness.info/publications/arXive2009%20-%20a%20monte%20carlo%20aixi%20approximation.pdf pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Kee Siong Ng]], [[Marcus Hutter]], [[David Silver]] ('''2010'''). ''Reinforcement Learning via AIXI Approximation''. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), [http://jveness.info/publications/veness_rl_via_aixi_approx.pdf pdf]
* [[Joel Veness]] ('''2011'''). ''Approximate Universal Artificial Intelligence and Self-Play Learning for Games''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_South_Wales University of New South Wales], supervisors: [[Kee Siong Ng]], [[Marcus Hutter]], [[Alan Blair]], [[William Uther]], [[John Lloyd]]; [http://jveness.info/publications/veness_phd_thesis_final.pdf pdf]
* [[Joel Veness]], [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Mathematician#MBowling|Michael Bowling]] ('''2011'''). ''Variance Reduction in Monte-Carlo Tree Search''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-24-2011 NIPS], [http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4288-variance-reduction-in-monte-carlo-tree-search.pdf pdf]
* [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Abdallah Saffidine]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Christopher Archibald]] ('''2012'''). ''Sparse Sampling for Adversarial Games''. [[ECAI CGW 2012]]
* [[Marc Lanctot]], [[Abdallah Saffidine]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Christopher Archibald]], [[Mark Winands]] ('''2013'''). ''Monte Carlo *-Minimax Search''. [[Conferences#IJCAI|IJCAI 2013]]
==2015 ...==
* [[Volodymyr Mnih]], [[Koray Kavukcuoglu]], [[David Silver]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Marc G. Bellemare]], [[Alex Graves]], [[Martin Riedmiller]], [[Andreas K. Fidjeland]], [[Georg Ostrovski]], [[Stig Petersen]], [[Charles Beattie]], [[Amir Sadik]], [[Ioannis Antonoglou]], [[Helen King]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Daan Wierstra]], [[Shane Legg]], [[Demis Hassabis]] ('''2015'''). ''[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature14236.html Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Nature], Vol. 518
* [[James Kirkpatrick]], [[Razvan Pascanu]], [[Neil C. Rabinowitz]], [[Joel Veness]], [[Guillaume Desjardins]], [[Andrei A. Rusu]], [[Kieran Milan]], [[John Quan]], [[Tiago Ramalho]], [[Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska]], [[Demis Hassabis]], [[Claudia Clopath]], [[Dharshan Kumaran]], [[Raia Hadsell]] ('''2016'''). ''Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796 arXiv:1612.00796]

=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=280447 quiescent nodes, and history heuristic...] by [[Joel Veness]], [[CCC]], January 30, 2003 » [[Quiescent Node]], [[History Heuristic]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=324392 Your program is a ...] by [[Joel Veness]], [[CCC]], October 29, 2003
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=345103 Re: CCT6: Rybka /Bodo ???] by [[Joel Veness]], [[CCC]], January 26, 2004 » [[CCT6]], [[Rybka]], [[Bodo]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=346744 Bodo @ CCT6....day 1....] by [[Joel Veness]], [[CCC]], February 03, 2004
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=437047 Re: BODO new OZ champion] by [[Joel Veness]], [[CCC]], July 17, 2005 » [[NC3 2005]]

=External Links=
* [http://jveness.info/about_me/default.html Homepage of Joel Veness]
* [http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/3757276/joel-veness Joel Veness] from [[Microsoft Academic Search]]
* [http://www.computer-go.info/db/operson.php?a=Veness%2C+Joel Veness, Joel] from [http://www.computer-go.info/ computer-go.info]
* [http://videolectures.net/nips09_veness_bfg/ Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search], video presentation by Joel Veness, from [http://videolectures.net/ VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge], December 2009
* [https://deepmind.com/blog/enabling-continual-learning-in-neural-networks/ Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks] by [[James Kirkpatrick]], [[Joel Veness]] et al., [[DeepMind]], March 13, 2017 » [[Deep Learning]], [[Neural Networks]]

=References=
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