Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Chun Sun]

Hello everyone,

Another update, as AGA will announce later:

* We are honored to have Yuandong Tian from Facebook Research, to
present "DarkForest:
A DCNN-based open source Go engine", on 8/4 afternoon.
* We are honored to have John Tromp, who calculated the exact number of
legal Go positions, to present "The number of legal Go positions", on 8/4
afternoon.
* As previously mentioned, Deepmind is coming to USGC this year. In
addition to the opening keynote on 7/30 Saturday, Aja Huang and Hui Fan
will also present "AlphaGo Insider" lecture on 8/4 Thursday's "Computer Go
afternoon", focusing more to the developer community.
* After these exciting presentations, DarkForest will play Andy Liu 1p at 3
handicaps.
* "JustGo" live recording/broadcasting app will be demoing around the
lounge and playing room.

This should be a fun event :)

Thanks everyone who helped our community work:)

Chun

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Chun Sun  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to bump up the thread and announce another team attending USGC
> this summer:
>
> Wantong Technology from China will attend USGC with their automatic game
> recording and broadcasting app "JustGo". Lei Chen 7d (CEO) and Yi Tang 2p
> will come to Boston to do the demo.
>
> Here is a demo for an internal version, pretty sure the July version will
> be better...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFj8k_b2Whc=share
>
> Thank you, and hope to see you this summer in Boston.
> Chun Sun
> co-Director, USGC 2016
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Chun Sun  wrote:
>
>> [Demo Stations; Poster sessions; Freestyle Q chat with anyone]
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We are happy to announce that we will have the "Computer Go Afternoon"
>> event in the US Go Congress  in Boston this
>> summer. It will be arranged on Thursday, August 4th, 2016, from 2pm - 5pm. We
>> will have a dedicated large meeting room + hallway demo/poster stations +
>> white board + boards/stones for computer go developers.
>>
>>
>> This is:
>>
>>- A salon for devs to meet each other in person, hangout and talk.
>>- An opportunity to ask questions and share pains about corner cases,
>>parameter selections, or other random technical details with experts and
>>colleagues.
>>- A stage to show-off your Go related projects. It can be *any*
>>interesting projects other than playing bots.
>>- A chance to test your program against curious real players in any
>>strength. You can find your potential test engineer with pro strength too.
>>
>> This is Not:
>>
>>- A bot competition.
>>- An academic conference.
>>- A chance to revenge to another dev in real game if your program is
>>weaker.
>>
>> The afternoon will be more about connecting people. We hope everyone will
>> enjoy.
>>
>> We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. We are
>> working on confirming attendance with some other teams, I will update on
>> this thread with better information along the way.
>>
>>
>> You can sign up for USGC now (register at www.gocongress.org) then send
>> me your abstracts (or ads with pics, or videos) later. If I get your
>> material before 6/30, I can manage to advertise it before the congress
>> opens.
>>
>>
>> This year's USGC also features keynote speech at the opening ceremony,
>> Saturday(7/30) evening, by Aja Huang and Fan Hui from the AlphaGo team.
>>
>> Email me if you have any questions.
>>
>> Thank you, and hope to see you this summer in Boston.
>>
>> Chun Sun
>> co-Director, USGC 2016
>>
>
>
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Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Chun Sun]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to bump up the thread and announce another team attending USGC
this summer:

Wantong Technology from China will attend USGC with their automatic game
recording and broadcasting app "JustGo". Lei Chen 7d (CEO) and Yi Tang 2p
will come to Boston to do the demo.

Here is a demo for an internal version, pretty sure the July version will
be better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFj8k_b2Whc=share

Thank you, and hope to see you this summer in Boston.
Chun Sun
co-Director, USGC 2016


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Chun Sun  wrote:

> [Demo Stations; Poster sessions; Freestyle Q chat with anyone]
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> We are happy to announce that we will have the "Computer Go Afternoon"
> event in the US Go Congress  in Boston this
> summer. It will be arranged on Thursday, August 4th, 2016, from 2pm - 5pm. We
> will have a dedicated large meeting room + hallway demo/poster stations +
> white board + boards/stones for computer go developers.
>
>
> This is:
>
>- A salon for devs to meet each other in person, hangout and talk.
>- An opportunity to ask questions and share pains about corner cases,
>parameter selections, or other random technical details with experts and
>colleagues.
>- A stage to show-off your Go related projects. It can be *any*
>interesting projects other than playing bots.
>- A chance to test your program against curious real players in any
>strength. You can find your potential test engineer with pro strength too.
>
> This is Not:
>
>- A bot competition.
>- An academic conference.
>- A chance to revenge to another dev in real game if your program is
>weaker.
>
> The afternoon will be more about connecting people. We hope everyone will
> enjoy.
>
> We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. We are working
> on confirming attendance with some other teams, I will update on this
> thread with better information along the way.
>
>
> You can sign up for USGC now (register at www.gocongress.org) then send
> me your abstracts (or ads with pics, or videos) later. If I get your
> material before 6/30, I can manage to advertise it before the congress
> opens.
>
>
> This year's USGC also features keynote speech at the opening ceremony,
> Saturday(7/30) evening, by Aja Huang and Fan Hui from the AlphaGo team.
>
> Email me if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you, and hope to see you this summer in Boston.
>
> Chun Sun
> co-Director, USGC 2016
>
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Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Ingo Althöfer]

Hello all,

> Google DeepMind team members Aja Huang 7d and Hui Fan 2P 
> have just confirmed that they’ll attend this year’s US Go 
> Congress in Boston...

I just understood (at least I believe so) why Fan Hui is going to
the US Congress (in Boston) in summer and not to the European Congress
in St. Petersburg. He was already in St. Petersburg for a test trip
in February. You can see his experiences with the taxi drivers
at St.P airport between 2m14s and 2m30s of the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syu8ZeDBBVE

Ingo.

PS. The lady next to him in the airport hall is Manja Marz, human part of
the "Crazy Manja" team during the EGC 2015 in Liberec.
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Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Ingo Althöfer]

Hi Michael,

thanks for the very interesting information!
 
>>> We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. 
>>
>> * Who from the AlphaGo tram intends to come to the US Go Congress?
>
>
> This from the ejournal, minus the photo:
> Google DeepMind team members Aja Huang 7d and Hui Fan 2P have just 
> confirmed that they’ll attend this year’s US Go Congress in Boston. 

Wow! My congratulations to the organizers of the US Congress. They
managed to get two of the central persons from the AlphaGo team
(the other two being David Silver and Demis Hassabis).

For the European Go Congress (in St. Petersburg, same time as US Congress) 
this means that title defender Fan Hui (European Champion 2013-2015) will
not defend his title.

> ... Dr. Huang (right) ... will give the keynote speech — together with 
> European champion Hui Fan 2p — at the Congress opening ceremony on July 30. 

I know Aja from previous Computer Games conferences (in particular
Leiden 2011). He is a very good and entertaining speaker. So, congratulations
again to get him engaged!


> ... We are working on confirming attendance with some other teams, 

They should definitely try to get David Fotland. He (living at the
West coast) is - at least in my eyes - the great old man of Computer Go.

Ingo.
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Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Michael Alford]

On 4/15/16 7:36 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:

Hello Chun Sun,
  

We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team.

one question out of interest:
* Who from the AlphaGo tram intends to come to the US Go Congress?
* Will they have a demo version of AlphaGo with them?

This from the ejournal, minus the photo:

Google DeepMind team members Aja Huang 7d and Hui Fan 2P have just 
confirmed that they’ll attend this year’s US Go Congress in Boston. 
“This is an exciting opportunity for the American go community to meet 
some of the team behind AlphaGo, which attracted global attention to 
go,” said Congress Director Walther Chen. The Congress runs July 
30-August 7; click here for details 
. 
Dr. Huang /(right)/, who was seen by millions worldwide last month 
playing for AlphaGo against Lee Sedol 9P, will give the keynote speech — 
together with European champion Hui Fan 2p — at the Congress opening 
ceremony on July 30. They’ll also attend a “Computer Go Afternoon” 
session on August 4.

... We are working on confirming attendance with some other teams,
I will update on this thread with better information along the way.

Thanks in advance,
Ingo.
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Re: [Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Ingo Althöfer]

Hello Chun Sun,
 
> We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. 

one question out of interest: 
* Who from the AlphaGo tram intends to come to the US Go Congress?
* Will they have a demo version of AlphaGo with them?

> ... We are working on confirming attendance with some other teams, 
> I will update on this thread with better information along the way.   

Thanks in advance,
Ingo.
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[Computer-go] US Go Congress 2016 "Computer Go Afternoon" invitation

[Chun Sun]

[Demo Stations; Poster sessions; Freestyle Q chat with anyone]

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce that we will have the "Computer Go Afternoon"
event in the US Go Congress  in Boston this
summer. It will be arranged on Thursday, August 4th, 2016, from 2pm - 5pm. We
will have a dedicated large meeting room + hallway demo/poster stations +
white board + boards/stones for computer go developers.


This is:

   - A salon for devs to meet each other in person, hangout and talk.
   - An opportunity to ask questions and share pains about corner cases,
   parameter selections, or other random technical details with experts and
   colleagues.
   - A stage to show-off your Go related projects. It can be *any*
   interesting projects other than playing bots.
   - A chance to test your program against curious real players in any
   strength. You can find your potential test engineer with pro strength too.

This is Not:

   - A bot competition.
   - An academic conference.
   - A chance to revenge to another dev in real game if your program is
   weaker.

The afternoon will be more about connecting people. We hope everyone will
enjoy.

We already have confirmed attendance from the AlphaGo team. We are working
on confirming attendance with some other teams, I will update on this
thread with better information along the way.


You can sign up for USGC now (register at www.gocongress.org) then send me
your abstracts (or ads with pics, or videos) later. If I get your material
before 6/30, I can manage to advertise it before the congress opens.


This year's USGC also features keynote speech at the opening ceremony,
Saturday(7/30) evening, by Aja Huang and Fan Hui from the AlphaGo team.

Email me if you have any questions.

Thank you, and hope to see you this summer in Boston.

Chun Sun
co-Director, USGC 2016
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