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Sep 4-5, 2018: Training
Sep 5-7, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
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Mars Geldard

Mars Geldard
Tutor, University of Tasmania

@TheMartianLife

Marina Rose Geldard (Mars) is a technologist from Down Under in Tasmania. Entering the world of technology relatively late as a mature-age student, she has found her place in the world: an industry where she can apply her lifelong love of mathematics and optimization. She compulsively volunteers at industry events, dabbles in research, and serves on the executive committee for her state’s branch of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) as well as the AUC. She’s writing Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift for O’Reilly and working on machine learning projects to improve public safety through public CCTV cameras in her hometown of Hobart.

Sessions

1:45pm-2:25pm Friday, September 7, 2018
Learning from video games
AI Business Summit, AI in the Enterprise, Impact of AI on Business and Society
 Location: Continental 5
Secondary topics:  Interfaces and UX
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (Lonely Coffee), Mars Geldard (University of Tasmania)
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Video games have used sophisticated AI techniques for decades to drive everything from area design to navigation to enemies to conversation and planning. Paris Buttfield-Addison, Mars Geldard, and Tim Nugent offer an overview of the history of AI in video games and explain how the needs that drove AI advancement in the game development world map to almost-identical problems in the real world. Read more.