I will not be at the Congress, but I can play SlugGo in a tournament
that allows remote connection.
I can bring a cluster for SlugGo to Portland next year, and look
forward to doing so.
Cheers,
David
On 12, Apr 2007, at 3:33 PM, Peter Drake wrote:
The next US Go Congress will be held July 28 - August 4, 2007, in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania:
http://congress.usgo.org/
Is anyone else planning to attend?
I would, at the very least, like to gather a casual meeting of Go
programmers.
It might also be interesting (and a good media opportunity) to hold
a computer tournament. I see three possibilities:
1) Not require the machines in question to be physically present.
This would require a certain amount of faith that there were really
programs at the other end, so it would probably not be appropriate
to offer any prize for this. This is the easiest to organize, as it
amounts to convincing Nick to hold that month's KGS tournament on
an appropriate date.
2) Require people to bring their machines. This is a bit of a pain
for the programmers.
3) Require all programs to run on identical machines provided on-
site. Hopefully someone could arrange a local computer vendor to
loan some fast machines in return for the free press. This approach
would, unfortunately, exclude SlugGo and anyone that's been
building special-purpose hardware. I might try to swing this at the
2008 Congress, which will be held here in Portland, Oregon, the
home of a very large Intel facility.
Such a tournament could be followed up by an exhibition match
against strong humans (including professionals).
What do you think? Is there anyone in the Pennsylvania area that
would be willing to organize such a tournament this year?
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
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