Gaming and AI RIA Workshop

How can research uniquely contribute to gaming and how can gaming inform research agendas? This workshop aims to tackle this important question of how to accelerate impactful gaming integrations that enable researchers to build, measure, and learn rapidly. The Gaming and AI RIA proposes to work towards a common benchmark for the research and gaming ecosystem by creating the Xbox Learning Environment, a research test suite that collects gameplay data across many modern Xbox game titles. The purpose of this workshop is to gather the Gaming and AI RIA project members and researchers who work on games to brainstorm, discuss, and collaborate on new and exciting ways we can leverage the Xbox Learning Environment for greater impact. 

This workshop will air in two time zones:

• Wednesday, October 26 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT) / 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM (EDT) / 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (BST) / 12:00 AM – 4:00 AM (CST)
• Thursday, October 27 from 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM (PDT) / 4:00 AM – 8:00 AM (EDT) / 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (BST) / 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM (CST)

Speakers

Sam Devlin

Principal Researcher Microsoft Research Cambridge

Bill Dolan

Partner Research Manager
Microsoft Research Redmond

Raluca Georgescu

Research Software Engineer II
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Geoff Gordon

Partner Researcher
Microsoft Research Montréal

Lars Liden

Principal Research Software Engineer Manager
Microsoft Research Redmond

Matthai Philipose

Senior Principal Researcher
Xbox Trust

Harsh Jhamtani

Senior Researcher
Microsoft Semantic Machines 

Harm van Seijen

Principal Research Manager
Microsoft Research Montréal

Haiyan Zhang

GM, Gaming AI
Xbox Emerging Technologies

Agenda

Workshop organizers

Marc-Alexandre Côté, Microsoft Research Montréal
Sam Devlin, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Weishung Liu, Microsoft Research Redmond
Friederike Niedtner, Microsoft Research Montréal
Sudha Rao, Microsoft Research Redmond
Harm van Seijen, Microsoft Research Montréal
Shanzheng Tan, Microsoft Research Cambridge

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