I-Chen Wu is a professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University. He received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1982, an M.S. in computer science from NTU in 1984, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1993.
Wu invented a new game named Connect6, a variation of the five-in-a-row game, and presented it at the 11th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG'11) in 2005.[1] The game-tree complexity of Connect6 is quite high, close to Chinese Chess. Since being presented in 2005, Connect6 has been a tournament item in the Computer Olympiad, where Wu's program, NCTU6, won the gold medal in 2006. Up to date, there have been at least four game websites supporting the game, at least 10 web forums (in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish, and multi-lingual), hundreds of thousands of games played over the Internet, several Josekis (opening moves) and Tsumegos (puzzles) developed, and one human Connect6 open tournament held in Summer 2006.
Wu also developed an Internet game platform and actively participated in software development, leading a team to build major software components and frameworks in both clients and servers. On the client side, his team developed a portable AWT/Swing architecture for Java game development, which has been used in several game companies in Taiwan, including Sina Inc., Hinet, and ThinkNewIdea Inc.
External links
External links include the homepage of I-Chen Wu, the homepage of Connect6, and the Chess Programming Kiwi entry on I-Chen Wu.