Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• In 2013, Crazy Stone won the 6th edition of the UEC Cup and the first edition of the Denseisen. Crazy Stone is a Go-playing program developed by Rémi Coulom since 2005, based on the Monte Carlo Tree Search method. The UEC Cup is the most important international computer-Go competition, organized yearly by the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan. The Denseisen is a match between the winner of the UEC Cup and a top Japanese profesionnal Go player. This year Crazy Stone won a game with 4 stones of handicap against 9-dan profesionnal player Yoshio Ishida.

• The International Machine Learning Society selects SequeL to organize the 32^nd International Conference on Machine Learning in 2015 at Lille. ICML is the most important conference in the field of machine learning.