isae yamamoto developed the software. the prize money will come out of his own packet. >> translator: i want to show people how serious i am about the competition. >> reporter: yamamoto is all smiles, but his program shows no mercy. it crushed its amateur opponents. the matches went on for four days. in the end, it was computer, 166, challengers, zero. >> it was just too strong. i was completely beaten. >> translator: it's hard for humans to win. that's one powerful program. >> reporter: 28-year-old yamamoto was in elementary school when he learned the ancient game from his father. >> translator: i learned shogi when i was stuck in the house with an eye problem. the doctors wouldn't let me play outdoors. >> reporter: the shogi board became his playground, instead. yamamoto learned computer programming at the university of tokyo. he earned a masters degree in shogi software development. until recently, humans have been better than computers at assessing situation, and plotting strategy. yamamoto's original program was not

he was born in yamamoto. he runs an i.t. consulting firm in tokyo pep launched the strawberry business two years ago. he wanted to help revive agriculture in the area by combining strawberry cultivation with information technology. >> translator: there are uncertainties in agriculture, like the weather. but i feel excuses like that are weakening the industry. >> reporter: one of the most difficult things about growing strawberries indoors is controlling the environment inside hothouses. the farm set up a system to maintain the temperature, and humidity, at optimal levels. the designers of the system tapped in to a veteran farmer's years of experience. he has been growing strawberries in yamamoto for three decades. he almost gave up on farming after the tsunami, but he was inspired by iwasa's enthusiasm and they decided to join forces. hashimoto provides the necessary input to figure out the best environmental settings to maximize production. he gives detailed instructions on temperature settings for each variety of strawberr

yamamoto she's able to manage. we are were just going to do a few pilot schools throughout the district, but because linda is so fabulous and has a great reputation with the school site, we are able to roll this program out everywhere in the district. she's able to provide the technical assistance, provide any kind of support that the schools need and also contract every student, every school and run data based on that so we can assess where we are and either make improvements or adjustments as we go forth.

yamamoto she's able to manage. we are were just going to do a few pilot schools throughout the district, but because linda is so fabulous and has a great reputation with the school site, we are able to roll this program out everywhere in the district. she's able to provide the technical assistance, provide any kind of support that the schools need and also contract every student, every school and run data based on that so we can assess where we are and either make improvements or adjustments as we go forth. >> thank you. so this is something that i would like to talk about which we find very exciting and within the spirit of san francisco. so, this is something that our office came up withnd we call it sprout funding. what we found is we budgeted our money and we felt that really to meet the needs and goals of the students we wanted to provide an opportunity for local school sites to be able to design their own program of credit recovery without kind of the centralized top down management style. although we do have

yamamoto up. she's very much involved with this. the school administrators find this to be a much better product. >> okay. thank you. >> it's actually really exciting. the second part is how does one single person facilitate that process of fidelity and validity of online learning to support the students? what the data and research says is what happens is that sometimes when you get online learning is you release it to the schools without any professional development, without any support, without any kind of prior working knowledge of the program as well as with a lack of, i don't want to say tracking because it's kind of a negative word, without the responsibility of data with what the students are doing and how many are completing the program and how much time they are spending on it and what is the

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