Homepage of Esa Seuranen

Quick info about me:

It's me, smirking like there's no tomorrow...

Name: Esa Seuranen

Age:

Phone: +358 40-721 7727

Email: esa.seuranentkk.fi

Status: M. Sc. (Tech.), studying for D. Sc. (Tech)

(Academic)
History:

2000-2002 : Student, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK

2002-2003 : Student, Indiana State University, ISU

2003-2005 : Student, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK

2005- : Post-graduate student, Helsinki University of Technology, TKK

Courses: A list of courses accomplished sofar

Hobbies: My main hobby is an ancient board game called GO, but playing (almost) any kind of board games is fun (my collection). Reading fantasy or science fiction is quite relaxing too, as well as trying to perform FATALITY to my thumbs with PS3...

Organizations: Lautapeliseura
Mensa
PoGo

Publications

Introducing playing style to computer go, E. A. Seuranen, Computer Games Workshop 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 81-91, 2007.
New lower bounds for multiple coverings, E. A. Seuranen, Designs, Codes and Cryprography 45 (2007), 91-94.
New lower bounds on asymmetric covering codes, E. A. Seuranen and P. R. J. Östergård, Congressus Numerantium, vol. 178, pp. 57--63, 2006.
Unidirectional covering codes, P. R. J. Östergård and E. A. Seuranen, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 336--340, Jan. 2006. (codes in digital form)
Asymmetric and unidirectional covering codes, E. A. Seuranen, Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2005. (pdf)
Constructing asymmetric covering codes by tabu search, P. R. J. Östergård and E. A. Seuranen, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 51 (2004), 165-173. (codes in digital form)

I have also conducted a questionnaire study with go players relating to their ability to predict moves in professionaly games at the European Go Congress 2007. The questionnaire, the corresponding professional games and some summary over the results can be found from here.

Currently working on...

Entropy in go, submitted.
Further results on constructing asymmetric covering codes by tabu search, submitted.
Thesis, Computational methods for codes and games, in preparation.

Misc...

A game I made when I was young(er)... it works on Win32 platforms. It has also AI, so feel free to beat this classical get-five-in-a-row game and feel good about yourself ;)
Download Jack's Chess

Fortune of the Day

...and other perls...

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