[Computer-go] computer Go as a social & educational tool?

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi!

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:31:23AM +0000, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> computer Go as a social & educational tool?
> 
> is there anyone else developing computer Go as a social and
> educational tool?**
> 
> regards
> 
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> http://www.peepo.com
> 
> **to collaborate on further development.
> 
> It seems to me that at present the majority of effort is invested in
> competition towards developing a strong or even pro application.
> especially under the excellent supervision  of Nick Wedd, KGS  and
> others.
> 
> However, I am  interested in the collaborative aspects of
> computer-Go such as:
> a means to explore and explain complex homeostatic processes through
> data visualisation,
> and improve social engagement, beyond chat.
> I also conceive that this will help to build better programs ~:".
> 
> Currently peepo.com uses fuego and shows territory as gradient.
> Seeking general assistance and in particular to further develop
> back-end.

  It would be nice to have some page summarizing the work in this area.
Hope others will chip in with their pursuits too. :-)

My work related to this is a possibility in Pachi to (i) visualize the
win rate of given player as it evolves throughout the game from the
program's point of view (ii) offer an evaluation for each possible move
in a position, for the purpose of further visualization. You can find
details on both in the past few months of archives easily, I think.

  We have been also looking into how to examine player's games and tell
something about the player based on that (strenth, style, "pro
likeness", ...), using statistical pattern-based analysis. See the
"Gostyle" part of http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/go/ for details.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Computer science education cannot make an expert programmer any more
than studying brushes and pigment can make an expert painter. --esr