While chess programs have played at a world-class level for two decades, backgammon software based on the same brute-force approach has never achieved more than a weak intermediate level of play.

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Mr. JEFF LANDY (Information Technology Association): There is recognition that the majority of students in our graduate level math, science and engineering programs are actually foreign nationals and we have two choices.

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