1. Research on AI & Computer Games at Lehigh By: Héctor Muñoz-Avila http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/InSyTe/ And: Aaron Battalion Todd Fisher Hai Hoang Stephen Lee-Urban Marc Ponsen Megan Vasta Kit Ming Chang Frank Cremen John Gerace Ben Mautner Chris Olsisnki Jarret Raim

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 http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/%7Emunoz/projects/AIGames/poker-web/LUPoker.html Small grant from NRL on game (military simulation- related) research

4. Continuation - 2004 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 - 2005 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 Work on translation of gaming language to AI languages Chapter submission accepted for AI Game Programming Wisdom 3 on hierarchical planning for controlling a team of Unreal Tournament bots Paper on Reinforcement Learning in Real Time Strategy Games (at Innovative Applications of AI conference) Grant from DARPA on game (military simulation-related) research Donation from Poker Academy http://press.arrivenet.com/tec/article.php/593714.html AI Game Programming course taught for the second time –Undergraduate (senior) level and graduate level