At the first Scientific Game Jam Tokyo 2024 (SGJ), held in Japan, the Tokyo International University of Technology's participating team "Dinner Buffet" won the Gold Pixel Award (equivalent to the highest award). Tokyo International University of Technology also cooperated with SGJ2024, supporting the global activities of participating students.
The Scientific Game Jam is a hackathon* where multiple teams come together to create a video game based on the scientific research of doctoral students in 48 hours. It was first held in Grenoble in 2014 in partnership with the University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, CNRS, CEA, and Territoires de Sciences in France. It is now held annually in various locations across France. This time, scientists from Japanese universities worked with the French Embassy to hold the event in Japan for the first time.
Students from the Department of Digital Entertainment and Department of Information Engineering from Tokyo International University of Technology participated in SGJ2024, which was held under the theme of "Let's make science into a game." "Memory Trip," which won the Gold Pixel Award, was created by the team "Dinner Buffet," and the five members shared their ideas and skills with each other and completed the work through repeated trial and error.
Taking advantage of this event, Tokyo International University of Technology will host a special lecture titled "AI Policy in France" by Jean-Baptiste Bordes, Science and Technology Attaché at the French Embassy in Japan, on Wednesday, February 2025, 2.
Tokyo International University of Technology opened in front of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in April 2020 as a practical new university for AI, IoT, robots, and games and computer graphics. Led by Honorary President Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, former president of the University of Tokyo, and President Norio Murakami, former vice president of Google's US headquarters, the teaching staff includes not only researchers with a proven track record in their fields of expertise, but also practitioners from industry-leading and global companies such as IBM, Panasonic, NTT, Bandai Namco Studios, and NHK, who provide advanced practical education in collaboration with the global ICT and digital content industry. The first class, who graduated in March 4, has found employment in companies in a variety of industries, including Hitachi, Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS, SoftBank Corp., Sega, and Capcom.
*Hackathon is a coined word that combines "hack," meaning the improvement of a program, and "marathon." It is an event in which IT engineers form teams and intensively develop software or services on a given theme within a set period of time, competing with each other on the basis of originality of ideas and superiority of technology.
