Rémi Coulom (born 1974) is a French computer scientist,[1][2] once an assistant professor of computer science at the
Lille 3 University, and the developer of
Crazy Stone, a
computer Go program.[3]
In 2006, Rémi Coulom described the application of the
Monte Carlo method to
game-tree search and coined the term
Monte Carlo tree search[4] in his paper, “Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search.”[5] He was one of the research supervisors of Aja Huang,[6] who later led the
Google DeepMind team that developed
AlphaGo. Coulom developed the Whole History Rating system[7] and founded goratings.org, a website providing unofficial historical ratings of
Go players in the world.
^Rémi Coulom (2006). "Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search". Computers and Games, 5th International Conference, CG 2006, Turin, Italy, May 29–31, 2006. Revised Papers.
Jaap van den Herik, Paolo Ciancarini, H. H. L. M. Donkers (eds.). Springer. pp. 72–83.
CiteSeerX10.1.1.81.6817.
ISBN978-3-540-75537-1.