Mark Schachner

Fun

Since the summer of 2022, I've hosted weekly movie nights in the math department. You can find the list of movies we've watched here.

I'm a big fan of puzzles and creative playthings. You can find a gallery of things I've made here.

I love to make board games. I made an abstract strategy game called Milestone, which you can play here.
Milestone became the subject of an AI project by Connor McCarthy, Corban Chiu, and Sunny Chavan. They built a tree-search AI using a evaluation powered by hyper-heuristic tuning, and trained a neural network as well which played nearly half a million games! You can find their report here.
Along with Aria Beaupré and a few others, I'm currently writing a game called DupliCity.

Along with Olu Olorode, Kimball Strong, and Alex Vidinas, I'm a member of a barbershop quartet called the MOKA Pots. You can watch our latest performance here!