1. Research on AI & Computer Games at Lehigh
By: Héctor Muñoz-Avila
And:
Aaron Battalion
Todd Fisher
Hai Hoang
Stephen Lee-Urban
Marc Ponsen
Megan Vasta
Brian Auslander
Matt Dilts
Kit Ming Chang
Frank Cremen
John Gerace
Ben Mautner
Chris Olsisnki
Jarret Raim
Chad Hogg
Your name…

2. The Origins Long term interest on Games
2002: Aaron Battalion & Todd Fisher wanted to do an Ind. Study on “Game stuff”
2003: First Installation of Unreal Tournament Bots at Lehigh

3. First Steps: 2003
Kit Ming Chang report on Age of Empires Rule-Based System: “CLIPS”
Frank Cremen, Ben Mautner and Chris Olsisnki build Poker game
Small grant from NRL on game (military simulation-related) research

4. Building Up
Exploratory paper on hierarchical explanation in games
Exploratory paper on using hierarchical planning for controlling a team of Unreal Tournament bots
First class Game Programming at Lehigh
Graduate-level course
Exploratory grant from DARPA on game (military simulation-related) research

5. Expansion –
Paper on using hierarchical planning for controlling a team of Unreal Tournament bots in the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (Hoang)
Work on translation of gaming language to AI languages (Lee-Urban)
Chapter appearing at AI Game Programming Wisdom 3 on hierarchical planning for controlling a team of Unreal Tournament bots (Hoang)
Paper on Reinforcement Learning in Real Time Strategy Games (at Innovative Applications of AI conference) (Vasta)
Grant from DARPA on game (military simulation-related) research
Donation from Poker Academy
AI Game Programming course taught for the second time
Undergraduate (senior) level and graduate level

6. Today – Established Research
Grant from NSF where Games are used as testing environment
Paper on using reinforcement learning to control a team of Unreal Tournament bots in the Innovations of AI Conference (Vasta & Lee-Urban)
Chapter at AI Game Programming Wisdom 4 on the same topic (Vasta & Lee-Urban)
AI Game Programming course taught for the third time
Undergraduate level
Using Call To Power 2 as a testbed (Gundevia, Hogg, & Dilts)
Using Case-based reasoning to control team of Unreal Tournament bots (Auslander, Lee-Urban, & Hogg)
General game Playing Competition (Dilts, Lee-Urban, & Hogg)