Team “Shift,” led by third-year student Ryoichiro Shiraishi, wins first prize and Team “Biomachine Industrial,” including fourth-year students Shota Ekuni and Koichi Murata and first-year student Yasunari Asakura, wins merit award in the Ghost in the Shell Realize Project Tokyo Hackathon
Team “Shift,” consisting of Ryoichiro Shiraishi, EMP third-year student, Takehiro Fujita, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering second-year student in Doctral Program, Kento Inuzuka, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering first-year student in Master’s Program and Rintaro Takashima, College of Engineering Systems fourth-year student won first prize and Team “Biomachine Industrial,” consisting of EMP fourth-year students Shota Ekuni and Koichi Murata, EMP first-year student Yasunari Asakura, and Akira Uehara, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering first-year student in Master’s Program won a merit award in the Ghost in the Shell Realize Project Tokyo Hackathon held October 24-25, 2015 at DMM.make AKIBA.
Team “Shift,” winners of first prize
Team “Biomachine Industrial,” winners of a merit prize
The Ghost in the Shell Realize Project is an industry-academy-government partnership project in which leading Japanese corporations, university researchers, and local governments and government agencies join forces to realize the technologies and worldview of “Ghost in the Shell,” a manga by Masamune Shiro set in a 21st-century Japan where science and technology have advanced rapidly. In the Tokyo Hackathon, part of the program’s even schedule, entries such as machines (robots) and cyborg devices are judged in light of the manga’s theme of cyborg technologies expressed as the “Ghost in the Shell.” The judges include famous university researchers, corporate managers, and investors.
These prize-winning works have been invited to appear in Ghost in the Shell Realize Project 2015: The Awards, to be held in February 2016. Works nominated for Ghost in the Shell Realize Project 2015: The Awards have a chance at practical implementation and release to the world at large as part of the Ghost in the Shell Realize Project, through matching with businesses and support from investment companies in areas including investment, technology, intellectual property, marketing, and creative work.
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The Ghost in the Shell Realize Project:
http://www.realize-project.jp
The Ghost in the Shell Realize Project 2015 the Award:
https://www.realize-project.jp/award/