This is the full text of Silicon Studio's 1/17/2018 press release.
Middleware technology and game development company, Silicon Studio Corporation is happy to announce that YOKOZUNA Data, a state-of-the-art machine learning platform that predicts individual player behavior, will be partnering with DeepMind, Ubisoft and Modl.ai in the First International Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Games that will be held on Crete (Chania), Greece, from May 28 to June 1, 2018.
Dr. África Periáñez, manager of YOKOZUNA Data and Chief Data Scientist of the middleware and game development company Silicon Studio Corporation, will be a guest lecturer and will be in charge of the Player Behavioral Prediction hands-on workshop.
The summer school is dedicated to the uses of AI techniques in and for games. After introductory lectures explaining the background and key techniques in AI and games, participants will be introduced to the uses of AI for playing games, generating content for games, and modeling players.
This school is suitable for industrial game developers, designers, programmers and practitioners, but also for graduate students in games, AI, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence.
Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius, renowned Game AI Professors and co-authors of the AI and Games textbook, will be the main lecturers. During the first phase of the school, theoretical lectures will be complemented by guest lectures on special topics in game AI and data science and by hands-on workshops given by world-leading practitioners from DeepMind, Ubisoft, Yokuzuna Data, and other partners. For the second phase of the school, we plan a game AI jam on the taught material.
For more information, please visit http://school.gameaibook.org/
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