Junichi Hashimoto, a Japanese computer scientist at KDDI R&D, Ph.D. in 2011 from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) [1] [2]. He was member of Hiroyuki Iida's games laboratory [3], and is co-author of Tacos, the four times Gold medal winner at Computer Olympiads [4], the Connect6 program NOMI6, and the Go playing program Nomitan, an UCT based original program using an evaluation function optimized to game records of professional players.
Junichi Hashimoto [5]

Selected Publications

• Junichi Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Iida (2007). Context Killer Heuristic and Its Application to Computer Shogi. CGW 2007 » Killer Heuristic
• Junichi Hashimoto (2007). Tacos wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3 » 12th Computer Olympiad
• Toru Ueda, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Junichi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Iida (2008). Weak Proof-Number Search. CG 2008
• Junichi Hashimoto (2009). Tacos wins Shogi tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 » 14th Computer Olympiad
• Junichi Hashimoto (2011). A Study on Game-Independent Heuristics in Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, JAIST
• Junichi Hashimoto, Akihiro Kishimoto, Kazuki Yoshizoe, Kokolo Ikeda (2011). Accelerated UCT and Its Application to Two-Player Games. Advances in Computer Games 13

External Links

• Junichi Hashimoto | LinkedIn
• Junichi Hashimoto's ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ Research Unit for Computers and Games - 2011 News
2. ^ Junichi Hashimoto (2011). A Study on Game-Independent Heuristics in Game-Tree Search. Ph.D. thesis, JAIST
3. ^ Research Center for Computers and Games - Members
4. ^ Shogi at the Computer Olympiad
5. ^ Junichi Hashimoto | LinkedIn

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