AI Challenge
International artificial intelligence programming contest
The AI Challenge was an international artificial intelligence programming contest started by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.
Initially the contest was for University of Waterloo students only. In 2010, the contest gained sponsorship from Google and allowed it to extend to international students and the general public.
Description
Each participant wrote a self-contained computer program to play a game versus an opponent, and then uploaded the source code to a server. The contest engine used the Trueskill ranking algorithm for matchmaking and to generate the rankings.
After a match, spectators could watch the match[permanent dead link] using a browser.
The contest was open source.[1] Contestants were welcomed to improve the contest back-end.
Winners
| Contest | Theme | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 2009/Fall | Rock Paper Scissors | amstan |
| 2010/Spring | Tron Lightcycles[2][3] | a1k0n (Andy Sloane)[4] |
| 2010/Fall | Planet Wars[5] | Bocsimackó (Gábor Melis)[6][7] |
| 2011/Fall | Ants[8] | xathis (Mathis Lichtenberger)[9][10] |
See also
References
- ^ AI Challenge Source Code Repository, GitHub (2011-03-01)
- ^ Google AI Challenge: Tron - Accepting entries in Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Scheme, Haskell, and C# : programming
- ^ "Google & University of Waterloo AI Challenge - Java Tron Bot - Experiment Garden". Archived from the original on 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ "Google AI PostMortem". Archived from the original on 2011-12-30. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
- ^ There's a new Google AI Challenge: Planet Wars (Galcon clone) : lisp
- ^ "Gábor Melis' () blog - Planet Wars Post-Mortem". Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
- ^ Hungarian Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest | ZDNet
- ^ AI Challenge Fall 2011 - Ants Now Open
- ^ Xathis' User Profile
- ^ "xathis post mortem". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19.
External links
- AI Challenge
- Past Tron (Winter 2010) Challenge
- University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
