The previous AI challenge (tron) was a lot of fun. I suspect the experience they gained from running the last one, will make this an exciting contest. Haskell fared well in the last contest, despite it favouring fast C/C++ implementations due to a focus on classic minimax/pruning. The current challenge looks more open-ended as far as solutions go, so hopefully there'll see even more Haskell submissions! :) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jake McArthur wrote:

Just wanted to let everybody know that there is an AI contest [1] that started today. Everybody has about two months to create bots that compete against each other 1-on-1 in a game based on Galcon [2].

A couple issues to mention for full disclosure: There is some sponsorship by Google, but unfortunately they aren't running the hardware, so the site is getting pretty hammered right now. We (it's all open source and open for contributions) are working to get it optimized to better handle the load. Also, the version of GHC on the server is very old (6.8.2) and isn't likely to get updated. I'm working to allow binary submissions though. If that goes through, you guys will be able to submit 64-bit Linux binaries rather than Haskell code to be compiled on the server.

Just letting everybody know so the Haskell community can represent!

- Jake

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