Aaron Davidson, BSc, MSc
Aaron Davidson, BSc, MSc, is a prolific software developer and researcher with a diverse
background in Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, and
Computational Biology.
Aaron earned his
Masters of Computer Science from the University of Alberta, exploring the
applications of Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory to play the
game
of Poker at an advanced level. He then worked for BioTools Inc. writing bioinformatics
software — genomics and proteomics applications, sequence
alignment,
protein folding, cell simulations, and spectrographic analysis
algorithms.
He has developed software that assisted in mapping the human genome,
and
published a fast algorithm for optimal sequence alignment.
More recently, he developed Poker
Academy, a commercial product based on the poker AI developed at
the
University of Alberta.
Aaron now lives in Dublin, Ireland where he engineers massively
scalable network
architectures for the online poker industry. In his spare time he works
on
his open-source project CRON-o-Meter, a nutrition
tracking
suite designed for practitioners of Caloric Restriction. He also
dabbles
in the toy-worlds of artificial-life, exploring ecology simulations,
genetic algorithms, and neural networks.
His publications include
Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale
Poker,
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Model Opponents in Texas
Hold’em,
Science as a Belief System,
Online Communities v.s. Classical Communities,
A Fast Pruning Algorithm for Optimal Sequence Alignment,
Solving Games with Distributed Computing: A System for Network,
Parallel Traversal of Signature Trees for Fast CBIR, and
“The Most Annoyingly Obtuse Argument…” (And Its Anthropic
Cousins).
Read the full list of his publications!
As an avid futurist/extropian/transhumanist/singularitarian who
believes
talk is cheap, he is a member of the Mprize 300. When he grows up he
wants
to be a mad scientist, so the Lifeboat Foundation had best keep an eye
on
him.
Read his blog!