This document summarizes the opening remarks and program for the 4th IPSJ International AI Programming Contest World Final in Yokohama. It introduces the directors and organizers of the contest. It lists the gold sponsors and supporters and provides an overview of the contest format and schedule, including team introductions, league matches, and an award ceremony recognizing the top 6 teams where the 1st place team will receive 50,000 yen.

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Opening Remarks
Hironori Washizaki
SamurAI Coding 2015-16 Director
(Waseda University)

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Welcome to Yokohama, and
SamurAI Coding 2015-16 World Final!
Organized by
Programming Contest Committee
Together with Volunteers
Director: Hironori Washizaki Vice-director: Tasuku Hiraishi
Executive Advisor: Takashi Chikayama
Members: Ikuo Takeuchi, Shingo Takada, Matsuki Yoshino, Kazunori Sakamoto,
Tetsuro Tanaka, Jun Nitta, Michiko Oba, Noriko Fukasawa

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Gold sponsors
Supporters / media sponsors
Money Forward,Inc.

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China Computer Federation
Dept. Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio
University
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society Japan 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
Japan Users Association of Information Systems
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Supporters

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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

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Musashi Miyamoto 宮本武蔵
• GO RIN NO SHO: A BOOK OF FIVE
RINGS
• “Knowing the enemy's timing, and
using a timing which the enemy does
not expect.”
• “Not overuse one weapon—since it
becomes easy for an enemy to find a
weakness in your style after
countless uses of the same weapon.”
BrainyQuote http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/miyamoto_musashi.html
The Book of Five Rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings
Miyamoto Musashi in his prime, wielding two bokken.
http://www.akinokai.org/images/Images.htm?Musashi.jpg

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Mission of SamurAI Coding
• Providing engineers/programmers with
opportunities to sharpen and demonstrate AI
programming, problem-solving skills
• Providing platform for engineers/programmers,
IPSJ, industry, and academia to interact with
each other and focus attention on the next
global and IoT computing era

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Japan
Hong-Kong Taiwan
Korea
Poland
‘15-16 Preliminary and World Final
18 incl. 5 international teams selected from 99 teams
世界地図フリーイラスト素材 http://free-world-map.com/jp/

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Contest (Game) Introduction

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Program
• 14:50 – 15:20 Registration
• 15:20 – 17:30 Opening
Highlights of preliminary rounds
Team introductions and group league
Final league matches
• 17:30 – 17:50 Award ceremony
• 18:00 – 20:00 Banquet

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Award Ceremony

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All Finalists, Congratulations!
• Group A: omu, yamatchan, Emily, kni2621
• Group B: iwashi31, nhho, nocorupe,
KuasAI104
• Group C: Taiyo, suikkee, y_kawano, takapt

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Top 6 ～ 1 Teams
Prize Time!

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6th Place
siman
5,000JPY

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5th Place
arukuka & mztmr_nggts
5,000JPY

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4th Place
kwrig
5,000JPY
SONY MESH from e-Seikatsu

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3rd Place
Tuure
10,000JPY plus
RecoChoku Gift Cards

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2nd Place
sinryakudegeso
30,000JPY plus
RecoChoku Gift Cards

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1st Place
piyo
50,000JPY plus
RecoChoku Gift Cards &
SONY MESH from e-Seikatsu

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Closing
Hironori Washizaki
Waseda University

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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.
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