Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

[Forthminder]

Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010.

You may choose a programming language, such as
Java, C++, Python, Ruby or Haskell.

See details at

http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php

Bonne Chance!

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[Andrej Mitrovic]

Sweet, something to keep my brain busy for the next couple of weeks.

[John Nagle]

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[Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)]

On 06-Feb-10 08:02, Forthminder wrote:
> Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010.

> http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php
> Bonne Chance!

It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challenge, but algorithm
challenge.

A programming (only) challenge should only require the players to write
codes to implement an algorithm.

This one requires both algorithm design & programming.

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[Jeff Cameron]

On Feb 5, 11:18 pm, "Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)"

Hello, this is Jeff Cameron, the organizer of the Google AI Challenge.
I'm glad to see all this interest in our humble little contest. I wish
you all the best of luck, and encourage everyone to try their hand at
writing an AI for Tron! www.ai-contest.com

[Paul Rubin]

"Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)" <toylet...@gmail.com> writes:
> It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challenge, but algorithm
> challenge.
> A programming (only) challenge should only require the players to
> write codes to implement an algorithm.

Eh? Just about every interesting programming challenge is mostly about
algorithm selection. Try some Project Euler for example.

[Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)]

> Eh? Just about every interesting programming challenge is mostly about
> algorithm selection. Try some Project Euler for example.

Everyone back then has abused the "programming" word to meant doing
everything (algorithms (system analysis & design), data structures,
coding, testing, documentation, auditing, ....) at cheap
salaries+benefits and tight schedules!

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[Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)]

> Hello, this is Jeff Cameron, the organizer of the Google AI Challenge.
> I'm glad to see all this interest in our humble little contest. I wish
> you all the best of luck, and encourage everyone to try their hand at
> writing an AI for Tron! www.ai-contest.com

Someone please dumb the Tron ROM from the MAME32 project and use it as
baseline answer. :)

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^ ^ 21:42:01 up 7 days 5:48 2 users load average: 0.00 0.02 0.00

[Forthminder]

Google AI Challenge post-mortem report by the winner is at

http://a1k0n.net/blah/archives/2010/03/index.html#e2010-03-04T14_00_21.txt

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