Jeff Erickson

From Wikimanqala

Dr Jeff Erickson is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) since August 1998. His area of expertise is computational geometry.

Erickson researched the combinatorial game theory (CGT) of what he called "sowing games" and invented four mancala games: atomic wari, partisan sowing, reaping and two-dimensional sowing.

Game-related publications

Erickson, J.

(1996) Sowing Games. In: Nowakowski, R. (Ed.) Games of No Chance. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 29, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge MA (USA), 287-297.

External links

• His homepage at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Ernie's 3D Pancakes. Jeff's Blog.