Othello-dor: Racialized Odor In and On Othello

Race and ethnicity in Othello

Othello was written at a particular moment in history when the European construction of the ‘other’ was moving from a medieval to a modern paradigm. This involved a shift from religion to race and colour as the key signifiers of difference. In other words, Othello was written at a time when modern racial ideology and racial prejudice as we know them were coming into being but were not yet fully...

Machine Learning of Othello Heuristics

The machine learning algorithm of [3] is applied to the problem of learning which heuristics to apply when playing the board game Othello. The problem is large, for there are 46,875 heuristics considered. The results are respectable; the Learner is able to beat a practiced human player approximately fifty percent of the time. Suggestions for improvement are included.

The Evolution of Strong Othello

Cs 221 Othello Report Demosthenes

This report is intended to inform the reader about our experiences and strategies in programming an artificially intelligent Othello client. More specifically, we will describe what went right, what went wrong, and what we would do if we were to do it again. There is a brief discussion on various searching, training, and evaluation techniques, accompanied by analysis on what we found to work th...

Doctor Iago's treatment of Othello.

The article presents Shakespeare's Iago as Hell's master therapist. Illustrated with excerpts from the play, the reader is shown how with consummate psychological skills, Iago bends his victims to his will. Step by step he awakens Othello's jealousy, and makes use of the hero's basic insecurity on account of his blackness. Once Othello has determined to take revenge, Iago makes sure to prevent ...