Erica
Erica is apparently a project that has enlisted Remi Coulom, and which has replaced CrazyStone as his contribution to some high-level computer go events.
Hyperpape: Any chance we could get a clarification, source, comment from Remi or whatever?
Erica starts showing up in the 15th Computer Olympiad, replacing Crazystone in competitions where it competes. See here, for example:
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=216 -- I really know nothing about it other than that. I saw Erica's results everywhere when I started familiarizing myself with tournament results to re-edit ComputerGo, and I too thought it was weird that no one knows anything about one of the most powerful bots. Is it a flavor of CrazyStone, or some other program? Is Coulom's role integral or peripheral? The world would like to know... 172
Here is one link related to the topic:
http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Shih-Chieh+Huang. It seems Aja Huang? is the primary creator of Erica, but as his advisor, Remi consulted on it. I'm not sure what has happened since then (
http://dvandva.org/pipermail/computer-go/2011-April/003071.html -- see following messages) --Hyperpape
rsun: The author Aja Huang told me on KGS that Erica is no longer in active development. Remi told me on KGS that he is working on CrazyStone alone.