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The main focus of the general game playing
community is the annual general game

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playing competition. Competitions
typically held in conjunction with the

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National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence sponsored by the AAAI, the

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Association for Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence. Or sometimes by the

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Bi-annual IJCAI International Conference
of Artificial Intelligence. It's

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administered by Stanford University, so
many of those of you who are, of those of

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you who are at Stanford are not eligible
to participate, at least while you're

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still at Stanford. The competition began
in 2005 and has run annually ever since,

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with the exception of 2009. Here is the
photo of Jim Clune, on the right being

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congratulated by AAAI president Ron
Brachman. He is obviously pleased at his

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player having won, however the smile might
be doing small part to the $10,000 he

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received for winning the competition. here
is Michael Thielscher and Stephan

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Schiffel, winners of the competition at
AAAI'06 And here we have an assembly of

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winners. that's Hilmar Finnsson and Yngvi
Bjrnsson on the left, are the winners of

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the 2007, 2008 and 2012 competitions.
Together, with Stephan Schiffel and

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Michael Thielscher, are the winners of
2006. And Jim Clune, on the right, the

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winner in 2005. Now, and these were not
the only winners. some of the spectators

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even got in on the action with a bit of
betting. Now, I don't wanna toot my horn

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here, but just let me say that, last year,
I came away somewhat wealthier than I

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expected at Chris Welty's expense. The
format of this year's competition is

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typical. there will be a qualification
round in June of 2013. This will be

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followed by a semi-final tournament just
prior to the AAAI conference in Seattle.

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And, and it will culminate in a final
competition of the conference itself to

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determine, next year's winner. And if the
winner will take all the glory and a

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chance to compete in the carbon versus
silicon competition. In addition to the

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regular GGP competition, there will also
be another battle between carbon and

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silicon. This will be the third such
contest. unfortunately for us the humans

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are not doing all that well. this past
year the CADIA player, the world champion

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handily defeated the human race
represented by, here Chris Welty pictured

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here. in keeping with the double
elimination format of the competition, the

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contestants played two different games. In
the first, CADIA player easily defeated

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the human, in a very well played match of
dual Connect4. Then won a match of

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platform jumpers. as a consolation prize,
the human was awarded two bottles of

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scotch, in part to ease his disappointment
in having let down the human race. And my

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hope is that the prospect of receiving the
scotch didn't affect his performance. okay

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for those of you want to get involved in
the competition or just want to learn more

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about general game playing, here's a list
of resources; games.stanford.edu is the

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homepage for general game playing at
Stanford, and there's also a database of

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official competition results at
gamemaster.stanford.edu. ggp.org and the

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general game playing cited addressed in
provides support for the development of

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general game playing programs. There is
also a short wikipedia article. And you

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can find scholarly publications in GGP by
googling general game playing. Finally,

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for those of you, who want to learn more,
there will be an online course on GGP, via

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Coursera in the spring of 2013. As part of
the course work, you will get to build

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general game player, and of course you
will have plenty of time for you to

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register your player to compete in next
summer's competition.