Martin Müller
	Professor, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Amii Fellow Office: 6-190 University Commons Email (in domain ualberta.ca): mmueller

Website Move Notice

This site has been moved from its home for the last 26 years on webdocs to this location on Sep 3, 2026. At this time most links within the site are not available. All further content will be reviewed and likely restored, as soon as my time permits.

Martin

Activities and Interests

• I am not accepting new students.
  For applying to our department, please see Applications & Admissions on the Department of Computing Science web site.
• Research - main active area: algorithms in combinatorial game theory.
  • Research Group, current and previous members and visitors
  • Publications of my research group.
  • Open source software developed by my research group.
  • Some recent Talks from my group, on planning and games topics.
• Teaching - List of Courses I have taught.
• Where I have lived and my work experience.

2026 News

• Sep 1: Martin is teaching CMPUT 455 again!
• Aug 12: Taylor released Version 1.7 of MCGS! Simplest equal game (SEG) computed and added to databases, many optimisations, store and load transposition tables to stop/resume large computations.
• Jun 10: Taylor released Version 1.6 of MCGS! Cmake build, 64 bit move type, bounds and thermographs can be computed and stored in a database. New results, new optimisations.
• Mar 12-15: Martin visits Kazuki Yoshizoe at University of Kyushu.
• Feb 1: Two new group members! Prem Kant is a postdoc joining us from IIT Bombay. He works in combinatorial game theory. Xian-Dong Chiu is a visiting PhD student from National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) in Hualien, Taiwan. His interests include work with large databases of human game records in Go.
• Jan 27: Taylor released Version 1.5 of MCGS!
• Jan 1: Martin enters his 50% pre-retirement.

2025 News

• Dec 16: Our paper Drafting "Magic: The Gathering" with High-Dimensional Card Embeddings accepted for IEEE Transactions on Games. Congratulations Timo!
• Dec 3: Taylor released Version 1.4.1 of MCGS! Many new games, database improvements, and much more.
• Sep 15: Two papers accepted for Advances in Computer Games: MCGS: A Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver, and SEGClobber - A Linear Clobber Solver. Congratulations Taylor, Henry, Zahra and Fatemeh!
• Sep-Dec: Teaching a grad course CMPUT 657 - Algorithms for Combinatorial Games.
• Aug 29: Taylor released Version 1.3 of MCGS!
• Aug 23-30: Ti-Rong Wu of Academia Sinica visited our group, and gave the AI Seminar on Aug 29. Topic: Exploring Game AI through Planning.
• Aug 10: Submitted two papers for Advances in Computer Games, on Clobber and MCGS.
• Jun 2-12: our department moved to University Commons. My new office is 6-190.
• Jun 9: Taylor released Version 1.2 of MCGS!
• May 8: Visiting Ting-han Wei in Kochi, Japan. I gave a talk on Game Tree Search, Combinatorial Games, and Go.
• May 1: Owen received the President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction from our university! Congratulations Owen!
• Apr 24: Hongming Zhang passed his PhD exam. Congratulations Dr. Hongming!!!
• Apr 23: Our journal paper ETGL-DDPG: A Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm for Sparse Reward Continuous Control was accepted for TMLR. Congratulations Ehsan!
• Mar 23: Taylor released Version 1.1 of MCGS!
• Mar 15: Calgary - Edmonton Team Go match in SUB, on eight boards. Edmonton won 5:3!
• Mar 10: Henry Du passed his MSc exam. Congratulations Henry!!!
• Feb 22/23: visiting my diploma thesis supervisor Dr. Peter Lipp and his wife Michaela in Graz, Austria.
• Feb 7: Announcing MCGS Version 1, our Minimax-based Combinatorial Game Solver. Congratulations Taylor and Henry!
• Feb 1: I gave a short overview talk about our MCGS software, A Search-based Approach for Solving Sum Games at CGTC V, Lisbon 2025.
• Jan 30: Timo Bertram passed his PhD exam at JKU Linz. Congratulations Timo!!!
• Jan - Jun: I'm on a six months sabbatical!

• Old news (up to 2024)

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