Long Citation
Jonathan Schaeffer is Canada's leading researcher and world leader in research on artificial intelligence (AI) applied to games. In 1986 his Phoenix program tied for 1st place in the World Computer Chess Championship. Chinook in 1990 was the first program to earn the right to play for the human World Checkers Championship, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first program to win a human world championship in a non-trivial game of skill. Jonathan has been a key leader in the development of high speed and parallel computing in Canada. His next feat will be to solve poker!

Short Citation
Jonathan Schaeffer is a world leader in research on artificial intelligence applied to games. In 1986 his Phoenix program tied for 1st place in the World Computer Chess Championship. Chinook in 1990 was the first program to earn the right to play for the human World Checkers Championship, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first program to win a human world championship in a non-trivial game of skill.