Doi is president of Sony Digital Creatures Laboratory, as well as chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Whenever a speaker droned on, Miss Sweetie Poo briskly strode up to him or her, and said, loudly and forthrightly, 'Please stop. She was remarkably effective. The winners are Klaus Breslauer, Min Qi, and Parinya Disorntetiwat. It includes about 2,500 entries.
Prediction is only one element of interactive competition.
Matches consist of 100 turns or 10K turns. Dan Egnor's Iocaine Powder won the first RoShamBo competition. Jason Hutchens' MegaHAL came in third. It was the strongest pattern recognizer in the contest, but its play could thus be predicted and exploited by Iocaine. Boosting of forecasting models by optimally combining multiple predictors has been getting good press lately.