Hironori Washizaki, Opening Remarks by Director, SamurAI Coding 2017-18: 6th IPSJ International AI Programming Contest, Tokyo, Mar 14, 2018.

1. Opening Remarks
Hironori Washizaki
General Chair
SamurAI Coding: IPSJ Programming Contest
Committee
Waseda University / National Institute of Informatics /
SYSTEM INFORMATION / eXmotion

2. Welcome to Tokyo, and
SamurAI Coding 2017-18 World Final!
Organized by
Committee
Hironori Washizaki (Director), Tasuku Hiraishi (Vice-Director),
Takashi Chikayama (Executive Advisor), Ikuo Takeuchi, Shingo
Takada, Matsuki Yoshino, Kazunori Sakamoto, Tetsuro Tanaka,
Makoto Miwa, Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Noriko Fukazawa, Hiroshi
Suzuki
Game Design and Development Support
Kento Kawakami, Shingo Ohtsuka, Yuki Kondou

3. Gold sponsors
Supporters

4. Supported by
China Computer Federation
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society Tokyo/Japan Joint Chapter
IEEE Japan Office
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
International Information Science Foundation
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association
Japan Information Technology Services Industry Association
Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Japan Users Association of Information Systems

5. Mission of SamurAI Coding
Be a Samurai!
Felice Beato, Armoured samurai with sword and dagger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samurai_with_sword.jpg
Samurai Coding 2011 Image

6. Mission of SamurAI Coding
• Provides engineers and programmers with
opportunities
– to sharpen and demonstrate their AI programming,
problem-solving and team work skills
– to interact with students and professionals from other
organizations
• Provides a platform for IPSJ, industry, and academia
– to encourage and focus attention on the next global and
IoT computing era

7. ’17-18 Preliminary and World Final
• Online preliminary round: Jan-Feb
– 147 registered teams
– 36 submissions
• World final round
– 14 teams from Japan
– 2 teams from Germany and China

8. Contest (Game) Introduction
Takashi Chikayama
Executive Advisor

9. Program
• 15:30 ‒ 17:40 Opening
Tournament Matches with Introductions of
Participants at the First Round
• 17:40 ‒ 18:00 Award ceremony
• 18:15 ‒ 20:00 Banquet
(Location: Building 63, 1st Floor)

10. Award Ceremony

11. Top 9-16 Teams
Congratulations!
• piyo
• nhho
• kt_tenel
• kumikomiya
• nono
• クレストボウズ
• assy
• BpkvT0FAkkQsXsc9

12. Top 4-8 Teams
Congratulations!
4. KPCC Kamoike Team
5. エーアイテイオウ
6. hirokazu1020
7. johnnyhibiki
8. traP

13. Top 3 ～ 1 Teams
Prize Time!

14. 3rd Place
sc-samurai
10,000JPY

15. 2nd Place
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20,000JPY

16. 1st Place
tortoise
40,000JPY plus

17. Sponsor Award

18. いい生活 スポンサー賞
e-Seikatsu Sponsor Award
• tortoise
• KPCC Kamoike Team

19. Closing
Thank you very much for all the participants,
sponsors, supporters, staff and volunteers.
Hironori Washizaki
SamurAI Coding 2017-18 Director

20. See you next year!
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21. Banquet
18:15 ‒ 20:00
Location: Building 63, 1st Floor

22. Greetings
Tasuku Hiraishi
Vice-Director
Kyoto University

23. Introduction of Sponsors

24. Closing

25. The world final will be broadcasted on the Internet
by nico nico Live (ニコニコ生放送). Please make
sure that your word and presentation materials
are appropriate for broadcasting.
http://live2.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv310305761
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