UBIC and Retty, Samurai Incubate, Artificial Intelligence Hackathon Held on the Theme of "Food"

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2015.12.01 Announcements

--To the press -

UBIC and Retty, Samurai Incubate, Artificial Intelligence Hackathon Held on the Theme of "Food"

Compete to create unique "food" services using the artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT"

UBIC Co., Ltd.
Masahiro Morimoto, President and CEO
2-12-23 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
(TSE Mothers Code Number: 2158)
(NASDAQ ticker symbol: UBIC)

UBIC (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto), which is listed on NASDAQ and TSE Mothers and is engaged in big data analysis business that makes full use of artificial intelligence, is Retty Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kazuya Takeda) and Samurai Incubate Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kentaro Sakakibara) will hold the second "Artificial Intelligence Hackason" on December 2th and 2015th, 12. It will be held over the course of a day.
 
At the artificial intelligence hackathon to be held this time, by letting the artificial intelligence "KIBIT" originally developed by UBIC analyze the word-of-mouth data of restaurants with the theme of "food", "even humans do not notice, hidden. We aim to create unique new services that "discover connections."
 
UBIC's artificial intelligence "KIBIT" can learn the subtleties of human beings that are difficult to communicate in language from a small amount of teacher data, and "discover potential relationships between unknown data and events."At this hackathon, we can expect various discussions using "KIBIT".
 
For details on the hackathon and how to apply, please see below.
 
■ Outline of the 2nd Artificial Intelligence Hackathon
日時:2015年12月19日(土)10:00~2015年12月20日(日)20:00
Venue: Samurai Startup Island (2-2-28-2F, Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo)
 
At UBIC, we believe it is important to develop human resources who can create services that solve real problems using artificial intelligence-related technologies such as "KIBIT."Through this event, we will contribute to the development of excellent engineers.
 
At the previous and first artificial intelligence hackathon held in May 2015, 5 participants competed for the perfection of ideas and software over a two-day period with the theme of utilizing artificial intelligence in business, and it was a great success. It was an event.

[About UBIC]

URL: http://www.ubic.co.jp/ 
UBIC Co., Ltd.We are a data analysis company that supports information analysis such as big data with our proprietary artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT".Established in 2003 as a company that supports e-discovery (electronic discovery), which preserves evidence, investigates and analyzes electronic data necessary for international litigation, and computer forensic investigations.We provide legal proceedings support to companies by making full use of our in-house developed data analysis platform "Lit i View ®" and "Predictive Coding ®" technology that supports Asian languages. I will.UBIC's unique artificial intelligence cultivated through litigation countermeasure support learns "implicit knowledge" such as expert experience and intuition, and realizes prediction of future behavior from analysis of human thoughts, recently medical and business intelligence, We are expanding our business by utilizing artificial intelligence in areas such as marketing. Established on August 2003, 8. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 8, 2007. Listed on NASDAQ on May 6, 26.The capital is 2013 thousand yen (as of March 5, 16).