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Submission + - StarCraft AI Competition Results 2

Submitted by bgweber on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:41PM

bgweber writes: The StarCraft AI Competition [http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/12/1729217/StarCraft-AI-Competition-Announced] announced last year has come to a conclusion [http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2010/10/starcraft-ai-competition-results]. The competition received 28 bot submissions from universities and teams all over the world. The winner of the competition was UC Berkeley's submission, which executed a novel mutalisk micromanagement strategy. During the conference, a man versus machine exhibition match was held between the top ranking bot and a former World Cyber Games competitor. While the expert player was capable of defeating the best bot, less experienced players were not as successful. Complete results, bot releases, and replays are available at the competition website [http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition].

Comment Re:CS degrees are NOT worthless (Score 1) 349

by Lewisham on Friday July 02, 2010 @04:14PM (#32778854) Attached to: In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable

I'd like to see you have the balls to actually mention which university you seem intent on slagging off for some bizarre ego-trip on Slashdot, of all places.

If you're going to go into such a vitriolic rant, I think you owe that university, and us, that much.

Submission + - AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition 2

Submitted by bgweber on Thursday November 12, 2009 @01:24AM

bgweber writes: The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust, commercial RTS environment. The competition will be held in the weeks leading up to the conference. The final matches will be held live at the conference with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.

Competition details are available at: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~bweber/starcraft.html

Submission + - Wikipedia Banned at College

Submitted by

Zatoichi007

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @02:54PM

Zatoichi007 writes: "The NYT is reporting that Wikipedia is now being banned as a source for research at Middlebury College. It seems that the last straw for the college occured when students in a Japanese history class wrongly asserted that the Jesuits aided in the Shambara Rebellion, using Wikipedia as the reference point. Is Wikipedia a valid source for "serious" research or just a starting point to find out what might be interesting about a particular topic?"

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