From August, 26th – 29th, 2014, the International Conference "Computational Intelligence in Games" (CIG'2014) will be held in Dortmund. We are happy that we could place a presentation there. Together with master students Markus Thill, Samineh Bagheri and PostDoc Patrick Koch, I will present some work on Connect-4, the well-known board game. In 2012 we…
Posts By: Wolfgang Konen
CBC price 2013
The 3. place of the CBC Price 2013 (500 Euro) goes to the Master thesis of Daniel Bertram (On variance reduction methods for accelaration-based 3D gesture data). My cordial congratulations to the winner! CBC is the Cologne Broadcasting Center, provider of IT services for the whole RTL group and other media companies.
Opitz Innovation Price 2013

The 1. place of the Opitz Innovation Price 2013 goes to the Bachelor thesis of Markus Thill (Reinforcement Learning with N-Tuple systems for Connect-4). My cordial congratulations to the winner! Read more in this post on the CIplus webpage (Research Center)
Opitz Innovation Price 2011
The 3. place in the Opitz Innovation Price 2011 (1000 Euro) goes to Kristine Hein for her master thesis "Gesture recognition with Slow Feature Analysis (SFA)". My cordial congratulations to the winner! Read more in this press release (sorry, in German only)