computer-go: Computer Go Engine Developers

["Fant, Chris" <chris.fant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm counting about 25 engines currently under active development.  I'm
probably missing some, so lets call it 30.  


Anders Kierulf
SmartGo
full-time
www.smartgo.com

Magnus Persson
Viking
Almost daily

Adrian Grajdeanu
Based primarily on AI techniques
Not quite 10+ hours/wk

David Eldso
GL7
Rule based

Anyone heard of this guy?
David Fotland
The Many Faces of Go
15 or 20 hours a week lately, but almost nothing last year

Joshua Berryman
Just starting

Inge Wallin
GnuGo

Thomas Wolf
GoTools
"I spent more than 10 hours/week"  (No longer developing, I guess?)
http://lie.maths.qmw.ac.uk/GoToolsApplet.html

Richard L. Brown

Joachim Pimiskern
Augos since 1987
Rather an inference machine than a lookahead algorithm

Howard Lange
"My program is very poor"  (Sorry Howard, you said it, not me)
VB 6.0, I don't see that speed is a problem

Joan Pons Semelis
The Turtle, not very much recently
 
Tristan Cazenave
Golois
Search and pattern based Go program

And myself, Chris Fant
It doesn't have a name yet, much less a website.
20-30 hrs/week
Heavily pattern based, with lookahead

A summary of some others, courtesy Michael Reiss:
The ones marked * are full-time,
although some unmarked ones may be full time too.

* Chen Zhixing, Handtalk
* Michael Reiss, Go4++
* Ryuichi Kawa, Haruka.
* Park Yong Goo, Fungo.
* The Wulu team.
* The KCC team
* Jimmy Lu, GoStar
Hiroshi Yamashita, AYA. (1/3 Go ... 2/3 Shogi)
Martin Müller, Explorer.
Ken Chen, Go Intellect.
Gnugo team
*? HMnet team - Korea (not a lot of people know about this one)
Feng Shaomin, topgoer