[computer-go] FW: Microsoft Research Lectures: Akihiro Kishimoto, Future University-Hakodate

[Lars Nilsson]

On 11/5/07, Adrian Petrescu <apetresc at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a public lectures, do these things get recorded and posted online
> anywhere, Google Techtalk-style? This looks like a really interesting talk,
> but I live nowhere near where this is being held. Is there any way at all?

Perhaps it'll be available here,
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayinst.aspx?fID=880.

Lars Nilsson

>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention at any rate :)
>
>
> On 11/5/07, Jack <Jack at lang.net> wrote:
> > This may be of interest
> > JL
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sarah Nightingale (Interaction Recruitment PLC)
> > [mailto:i-sanigh at microsoft.com]
> > Sent: 05 November 2007 17:25
> > To: Jack Lang
> > Subject: Microsoft Research Lectures: Akihiro Kishimoto, Future
> > University-Hakodate
> >
> > MICROSOFT RESEARCH LECTURE
> > This is a PUBLIC lecture
> > ________________________________________
> > TITLE: Developing the Best Life and Death Solver in Go
> > SPEAKER: Akihiro Kishimoto
> > INSTITUTION: Future University-Hakodate
> > HOST: David Stern
> > DATE: 13 November 2007
> > TIME: 15:00 - 16:00
> > MEETING ROOM: Lecture-room small(50 seats)
> > ADDRESS: Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley
> Road),
> > Cambridge
> > Computer Go is one of the ultimate challenges for games research. Despite
> of
> > a lot of efforts for building state of the art programs, Go is still
> > resistant to current AI techniques, even for solving subproblems such as
> > Life and Death, or tsume-Go. This talk presents the techniques behind
> > TsumeGo Explorer, a high-performance tsume-Go solver. TsumeGo Explorer
> uses
> > df-pn(r), a new search algorithm that improves the depth-first
> proof-number
> > search algorithm. The program also contains domain-dependent enhancements.
> > In empirical tests, TsumeGo Explorer out performs GoTools, which has been
> > the undisputedly best tsume-Go solver for the last 15 years.
> >
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