Cepheus, the poker-playing computer program that can't be beat

• Cepheus is a poker-playing computer program, set up by researchers at the University of Alberta.
•  the program learned from its mistakes, according to the team's website.
• By teaching the Cepheus to play with itself.
• With each hand it improved its play, refining itself closer and closer to the perfect solution," the website says.
• All it took was 4,000 computers doing the math on 6 billion hands every second for several months.
• The researchers say it's a breakthrough in artificial intelligence and game theory, which can have applications in other areas.
• Programmers potentially could use it in computer systems for airport security checkpoints or Coast Guard patrols.