The 4th International Summer School on AI and Games 2022 will be held in Chania, Greece between 29 August and 2 September 2022.
The event is organised by modl.ai, Professor Yannakakis and Dr Togelius and features a wide roaster of industry speakers from Microsoft, EA, Askblu.ai, Meta AI, Google, Ubisoft Massive, Sony, and more.
Modl.ai is listed as one of the top 100 promising AI startups in the world and as a spinout of the Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta, it offers five (5) special 50% discount coupons exclusively for University of Malta students for both in-person and hybrid registrations; priority will be given to in-person applications.
The summer school is dedicated to the uses of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in and for games. After introductory lectures that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the school will introduce participants to the uses of AI for playing games, for generating content for games, and for modeling players.
The school is suitable for industrial game developers, designers, programmers and practitioners, also for graduate students in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence.
The main lecturers are Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius, co-authors of the AI and Games textbook, the first comprehensive textbook on the use of AI in games.
During the first phase of the school theoretical lectures will be complemented by guest lectures on special topics in game AI and by hands-on workshops given by world-leading practitioners such as:
• Dominique Busso – Founder and CEO at Askblu.ai
• Kate Compton – Founder at Kate Compton Consulting
• Sam Devlin – Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
• Linus Gisslén – Senior Research Engineer at SEED – Electronic Arts
• Roberta Raileanu – Research Scientist at FAIR – Meta AI
• David Ha – Research Scientist at Google
The number of special-rate places is limited to 5 and will be given away on a first come-first-served basis! Regular registration closes on 1 June 2022.
To learn more about the summer school, please visit the website.
The in-person registration includes coffee breaks, lunches for 5 days, and 2 reception dinners (welcome and farewell). As well as course tuition and all course materials, live lectures and workshops, one-on-one speed meetings with lecturers, networking with guest lecturers, Game AI Jam, a certificate and the digital social program.
Please send an email to receive your special registration discount code.