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    	<h2>The 6th IPSJ International AI Programming Contest: SamurAI Coding 2017-18</h2>
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      <p>As the Internet industry, IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies rapidly grow, there is an intensifying need for high quality engineers and programmers.
	Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) conducted the International AI programming Contest "SamurAI Coding" in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016,
aiming to cultivate the younger generation so they can become leading researchers,
	developers and successful on global level
	(<a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/samuraicoding/2013/2012photos.html">1st SamurAI Coding Final Photos in 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/samuraicoding/2013/final-result-jp.html">2nd Final Results in 2013</a>,
<a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/samuraicoding/2014-15/">Results in 2014-15</a>, 
<a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/samuraicoding/2015-16/">Results in 2015-16</a>, 
and 
<a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/samuraicoding/2016-17/">Results in 2016-17</a>).
      <p>The 6th SamurAI Coding will be held between October 2017 and March 2018.
	Contestants will compete with each other over their engineering skills for AI and programming.
	Winners of the preliminary round will move on to the final round, which will be held on 14th March 2018 collocated with the <a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/taikai/80/">80th IPSJ National Convention</a> at <a href="https://www.waseda.jp/fsci/en/access/">Waseda University, Nishiwaseda Campus, Tokyo</a>.
	Participating engineers and programmers will be able to demonstrate their skills on a global level through this contest.</p>
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<li>April 5: <a href="final-results-2017-18/index.html">Details of battles in the world final</a> are now available. (NOTE: we confirmed its functionality on Chrome)
 (Chromeにて動作確認）。
<li>March 26: <a href="https://trial.samuraicoding.info/">Submission Trial Page</a> will be closed on Apr 30. Please download battle results if necessary by the date.
<li>March 24: Resuls of the <a href="final.html">Final Round</a> are now available. Congratulations to all world finalists! And thanks to all participants and viewers! See you next year. 
<li>March 10: Live Broadcasting (NicoNico Video) and location details of the <a href="final.html">Final Round</a> are now available. 
<li>February 18: Program submission due of the <a href="final.html">Final Round</a> is 2018 March 5th 23:59 JST. 
<li>February 17: <a href="final.html">Final Round Rules</a> and tentative schedule are now available online. 
<li>February 17: <a href="preliminary.html">The result of the online Preliminary (Qualifying) Round</a> is out! Congratulations to all 16 winners! For other teams that lost the online preliminary round, come to Tokyo and watch the World final together! Moreover later we will let you know about the banquet invitation soon.
<li>February 12: We are currently accepting submissions to the Preliminary Round by Feb 13 23:59 JST. 
Please submit your program at Preliminary Round on Google Classroom via <a href="entry.html">Entry</a>. Note that only registered teams are eligible for the Preliminary Round. 
<li>February 8: The results of the Practice Round #2 (consisting of two parts: First Round and Final Qualifier) are now available on the <a href="https://trial.samuraicoding.info/contests/2">Submission Trial Page</a>. Note that the participation in the Practice Round is NOT mandatory for entry to the contest; however, the registration via the Registration Form is mandatory for entry to the contest. 
<li>February 6: <br>
When we published the result of the Practice Round #1 on the <a href="https://trial.samuraicoding.info/contests/1">Submission Trial Page</a> at 4:50am Jan 30 (JST), the e-mail addresses of the registrants of the Practice Round #1 were mistakenly displayed. This inappropriate status continued until our staff noticed it and updated the web page at 11:50am same date (JST). This problem has been fixed now.
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We think that this incident was caused by our insufficient management of checking web pages before publishing. To prevent any more such incidents, we will strengthen our management system considering the confidentiality of personal information. We deeply apologize for everyone who has suffered from this incident. Please contact to <a class="contactadddr" href="mailto:samurai-contact@ipsj.or.jp">samurai-contact@ipsj.or.jp</a> if you have any question.<br><br>
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<li>February 1: We are currently accepting submissions to the Practice Round #2 by Feb 6 23:59 JST. Please refer to details on Google Classroom via <a href="entry-jp.html">Entry</a>. Note that only registered teams are eligible for the Practice Round. 
Please register yourself by the Registration Form if not registered yet. Note that the participation in the Practice Round is NOT mandatory for entry to the contest; however, the registration is mandatory for entry to the contest. 
<li>January 31: The submission due of the <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round</a> has been extended to February 13th 23:59 JST. Consider your submission now!
<li>January 30: The results of the Practice Round #1 (consisting of two parts: First Round and Final Qualifier) are now available on the <a href="https://trial.samuraicoding.info/contests/1">Submission Trial Page</a> . Note that unregistered teams using the Registration Form inside the Google Classroom via the <a href="entry.html">Entry</a> are displayed as Anonymous. Please register yourself by the Registration Form if not registered yet. Note that the participation in the Practice Round is NOT mandatory for entry to the contest; however, the registration is mandatory for entry to the contest. 
<li>January 25: Thank you for submitting your AI program to Practice Round #1. Please wait until we publish the result of the round. Note that the participation in the Practice Round is NOT mandatory for entry to the contest. 
<li>January 24: A supporter has been added. Thank you for your supports. 
<li>January 22: We found a problem with the submission form (Google Form) for Practice Round #1 that you cannot update your program after submitting once. We have fixed this problem now. In addition, we extended the deadline for the Practice Round #1 until Jan 24, 2018
at 23:59 JST. If you want to update your program, upload the program from the submission form again via Google Classroom and <a href="entry-jp.html">Entry</a>. We will use the latest one as your submission in the practice round.
<li>January 17: New version of <a href="software.html">Software</a> has been released. Some issues have been resolved. 
<li>January 16: We plan to hold Practice Round that provides an opportunity for battling other participants! Please refer to details on Google Classroom via <a href="entry-jp.html">Entry</a>. 1st Practice Round will use all programs that are submitted by Jan 22 JST (subject to change). 
<li>January 16: <a href="https://trial.samuraicoding.info/">Submission Trial Page</a> is now available! You can test the behavior of your program on the game server to be used for Preliminary (Qualifying) Round.
<li>January 15: <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round Rules</a> have been updated. 
<li>January 15: <a href="SoftwareInfo.html">The Software Environment</a> of Online Execution at <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round</a> has been published. 
<li>January 11: <a href="HardwareInfo.html">The Hardware Environment</a> of Online Execution at <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round</a> has been published. 
<li>January 10: <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round Rules</a> have been updated in terms of the course length and width. 
<li>January 7: New version of <a href="software.html">Software</a> having the revised viewer has been released. 
<li>January 7: The defect in <a href="rules.html">SamurAI Jockey Game Rules</a> has been fixed: The unit of Remain Time has been modified from "microseconds" to "milliseconds". Please note that current and previous versions of <a href="software.html">Software</a> have used the correct unit (i.e., "milliseconds") from the beginning.
<li>January 1: New version of <a href="software.html">Software</a> having more sample players and sample courses has been released. Some bugs were fixed. 
<li>December 29: <a href="entry.html">Entry</a> for Preliminary (Qualifying) Round is now open. 
<li>December 28: Supporter has been added. Thank you for your supports. 
<li>December 28: <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round Rules</a> have been updated. 
<li>December 26: <a href="rules.html">SamurAI Jockey Game Rules</a> have been updated. 
<li>December 26: <a href="preliminary.html">Preliminary (Qualifying) Round Rules</a> have been published.
<li>December 26: Sponsors and supporters have been added. Thank you for your supports. 
<li>December 11: Deadline for entry to preliminary round has been announced. 
<li>October 15: Sponsors and supporters have been added. Thank you for your supports. 
          <li>September 30: <a href="software.html">The preliminary game software</a> has been published.
          <li>September 30: <a href="rules.html">The preliminary game rules</a> have been published.
          <li>July 18: This preliminary website has been launched.
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      <h2>Registration and Submission</h2>

<p>There is no age limit. Moreover contestants can participate in the contest as individual or team; there is no maximum number of team members.</p>
<p>Please register your information and submit your program on the contest server (TBD).</p>

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<h2>Prize</h2>

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<b>For Preliminary round contestants (including World Finalists): </b>
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Preliminary round contestants are invited to Banquet on the World final round date on a first-come,
first-served basis; the number of Banquet participants is limited (TBD).
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Students can freely attend sessions of the <a href="http://www.ipsj.or.jp/event/taikai/80/">80th IPSJ Annual Convention by register themselves at the Convention site</a>. (TBD)
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<p><b>For World Finalists: </b></p>

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Winners of World Final will receive prizes. Moreover there will be some Sponsor Awards and Gifts (TBD).
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World Final contestants who are not IPSJ members will receive one-year IPSJ membership without any entry fee and annual fee. (The entry fee is originally necessary for IPSJ regular members.)
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Travel expense of one representative contestanst per each World final team participating
from far away areas will be partially supported (TBD).
Last year World final contestants from out side of Japan received travel expenses up
to 100,000JPY per team,
and contestants from a long distance within Japan received full travel expenses.
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All World Final contestants will be presented on the contest site.
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A few top teams at World Final will be selected as candidates of future IPSJ-IEEE Computer Society Joint Award recipients. 
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      <h2>Important Dates</h2>
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      	<li>Preliminary rule announcement: Sep 30, 2017</li>
<li>Deadline for entry to preliminary round: <s>Feb 8, 2018 AoE</s> <b><font color="red">Feb 13th 23:59, 2018 JST (extended)</font></b></li>
<li>Result announcement: <s>Feb 14, 2018</s> <b><font color="red">Feb 16, 2018 (extended)(TBD)</font></b>. 16 teams will be selected. Among them, up to four teams will be selected based on diversity and geographical distribution (TBD).</li>
        <li>World final round in Nishiwaseda, Tokyo (collocated with the 80th IPSJ National Convention at <a href="https://www.waseda.jp/fsci/en/access/">Waseda University, Nishiwaseda Campus, Tokyo</a>): Mar 14, 2018</li>
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<p>Contestants compete on their design and engineering skills of 
algorithms and AI strategies in addition to programming skills. 
See details at <a href="rules.html">Game Rules of SamurAI Jockey</a>.
SamurAI Jockey is a game played by two players. 
Two players controlled by AI programs, changing their positions step by step, 
compete for time to goal in a course with obstacles.
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<p>Contestants can choose a certain programming language among various major languages. </p>

<div style="width:100%;height:0px;position:relative;padding-bottom:90.657%;"><iframe src="https://streamable.com/s/csylw/moaqds?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden;"></iframe></div>

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      <h2>Committee</h2>

 <p>Hironori Washizaki (Director), Tasuku Hiraishi (Vice-Director), Takashi Chikayama (Executive Advisor),
 Ikuo Takeuchi, Shingo Takada, Matsuki Yoshino, Kazunori Sakamoto, Tetsuro Tanaka, Makoto Miwa, Kiyokuni Kawachiya, 
Noriko Fukazawa, Hiroshi Suzuki</p>

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 <p>Kento Kawakami, Shingo Ohtsuka, Yuki Kondou</p>


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