On February 14th, I'm leading a symposium at the AAAS (American
Association for the Advancement of Science) annual meeting in Chicago,
called "Games People Play: Challenges of Applying Mathematics and
Computers to Games". In that symposium I'm speaking on "Games
Computers Can't Play", with some discussion of the state of computer
Go (among other topics). The other speakers in the symposium are Elwyn
Berlekamp and Navin Bhat.
The AAAS, feeling there could be some popular interest in these
topics, has asked us to give a ~45-min press conference before the
symposium. I was asked if there was "anything I could show" to make
the subject more tangible. So my thought was, would it be possible to
schedule another high-profile matchup, along the lines of MoGo vs. Kim
at the Go Congress? We could start with the game in progress, and have
it wrap up sometime during the press conference. It seems like
potentially a great opportunity to promote awareness and excitement
about computer Go.
Please contact me if you think you might be able to arrange such an
exhibition game -- ideally involving a high-dan pro and lots of
computer power.
Let me also provide a disclaimer that I don't actually work in
computer Go (yet!); as the meeting approaches I could use some help
making sure what I plan to say is an accurate assessment of what's
going on in the field.
For more information on the symposium, see the symposium information
page. There's no way to link directly to the page; to get there, go to http://www.abstractsonline.com/viewer/?mkey=%7B8AA65090%2D37AD%2D4C29%2D9CF1%2D9BCD6EFA2210%7D
, and enter "Hearn" into the search box.
Thank you,
Bob Hearn
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Robert A. Hearn
Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rah/
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