Eric Piette
@PietteRic
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Assistant Professor at @UCLouvain_be. Game AI researcher focused on General Game Playing and the Ludii (https://t.co/YJx5QA5sBb) system. Game addict and beer lover
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Be
Joined March 2010
We have a new open position for a PhD student to work on Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security! Check out https://t.co/ORqyxbfwLa for details, and feel free to contact me for any info as well. Application deadline: May 11 RTs much appreciated.
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Breaking News! A four-year interdisciplinary research project on the cultural heritage of games, linked to our COST action has just started at the University of Lausanne.
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Ludii 1.3.14 is out! 100+ new games (1400+ in total), including Shibumi games, community contributions & games from the Kaggle competition "Game-Playing Strength of MCTS Variants"! 🏆 https://t.co/HDvHHjh5dj This release reflects the activity of the Ludii community, more soon!
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🚨GameTable's GP2 call for funding applications will open on Monday, February 10, 2025. 🚨 Find out more about our grant schemes and how to apply here:
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Did you miss the latest Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar with Marco Tibaldini? You can catch his talk, "Board Games in Classic Literature: What We Know Thanks to Lexicographers" here:
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Happy New Year! GameTable members had a great 2024 and thought now would be the perfect time to look back on some of the fun. Check out all these happy faces from the WG5 meeting in Santorini:
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GameTable researchers are in the news! Check out this article from New Scientist about our researchers' use of AI to understand ancient boardgames! https://t.co/YhwQG9HyNk
newscientist.com
Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules
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Wanna catch up on the WG2 webinar? Catch Georgi Markov's talk, "Meddling with chess variants" here:
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For those at #NeurIPS2024, make sure to check out the poster on GAVEL from 4.30 p.m. PST onwards: poster #2602 in East Exhibit Hall A-C. @gdrtodd_ should be there to present it :) More info:
Want to play a game made by an AI? I'm excited to introduce new work with Alex Padula, @matthew_stephe, @PietteRic, @DennisSoemers, and @togelius -- GAVEL: an evolutionary game design system that uses a fine-tuned large language model to generate novel board games (1/n)
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Did you miss the November 12, 2024 WG2 Webinar presented by Ivan Nikolov and Georgi Markov? You can catch up and hear all about their research, "Building VR games with LLM-power NPCs for Boosting Visitor Engagement in a Danish Viking Museum" here:
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💶Don't you just love research funding? 💶 GameTable's second grant period has officially started. We are now accepting applications for STSM, ITC and Dissemination Grants! For more information see:
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Join us for another Mathematics and Games webinar. Georg Grasegger will explore combinatorics and other properties of Qwirkle and show this exploration with students. https://t.co/XcDbLiJQSq Monday, Nov 25, 18:00 CET (Vienna time) This presentation will *not* be recorded!
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Tomorrow at 18:00 CET, we will have Ivan Nikolov and Georgi Markov presenting their talks Building VR games with LLM-power NPCs for boosting visitor engagement in a Danish Viking Museum and Meddling with chess variants. https://t.co/zu8S23SpOU Passcode: Z!qc+13e
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🏆 Collaboration win!🏆 On July 18th-19th, members of GameTable participated in a conference organized by the Game4CED, researching on tabletop games that works for visual impaired and colourblind players. https://t.co/Y5wSM6O6n6
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Check out this incredible competition which some of our very own @GameTableNet researchers collaborated on!
📣 Competition Launch Alert! UM - Game-Playing Strength of MCTS Variants hosted by @MaastrichtU 🎯 Predict how MCTS variants perform against each other in different games. 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: 11-25-24 Learn more 👇
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Here is the job offer:
jobs.uclouvain.be
Un·e académique en Langages de programmation et génie logiciel
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🚀 Exciting news! We're launching a brand-new Kaggle competition with a $50,000 prize pool! 🏆💰 Topic: Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) variants across 1,300+ Ludii games! Don't miss out – check it out now! #Kaggle
@LudiiGames @GameTableNet @UCLouvain_be @MaastrichtU @Flinders
I'm excited to share that we're hosting a Kaggle competition, with a $50,000 prize pool! We've built a dataset of outcomes from millions of plays between 72 different MCTS variants in >1300 different 2-player board games. Goal: predict win percentages for different matchups.
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🕒Only a Few Days Left to Apply Don't miss your chance to secure funding and support for your scientific research project on boardgames! The @GameInLab call for projects is closing on September 6! Apply Now: https://t.co/X5cHxz1Azi Let’s push the boundaries of knowledge together!
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In case you are interested, don't hesitate to contact Kim Mens (kim.mens@uclouvain.be) and keep an eye on the job offers of our university for the official call. All newly created posts will be advertised soonish (September) on the UCLouvain website
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Our university will soon be opening a full-time academic position in Programming Languages and Software Engineering. The call will likely be launched in September 2024 with application deadline expected until end of November. If accepted, the job will start in September 2025.
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