Google AI Challenge this year is open! Ants Battlefield!

Hi all,

One more time Google and the University of Waterloo's computer science club have launched an Artificial Intelligence challenge. This year the task is to write a program to compete in the Ants Multiplayer Challenge. The goal is seek and destroy the most enemy ant hills while defending their own hills.  You must create a bot that plays the game of Ants as intelligently as possible.  The contest supports languages in Python, Java, C# and C++.

The current state of the contest, which you can submit your project, is until December 18th. After, there will be a final tournament between the contestants to decide the ultimate winner!

See  the game in action at the video below.

It is a great opportunity to learn Artificial Intelligence and play with your skills at programming, machine learning and logical reason!

Regards,

Marcel Caraciolo  

A.I. Challenge with the game Planet Wars sponsored by Google!

Hi all,

Recently Google and the University of Waterloo's computer science club have launched an Artificial Intelligence challenge. The task is to write a program to compete in a Planet Wars tournament.  Your goal is to conquer all the planets in your side of space or destroy all of your opponents ships.  The contest supports languages in Python, Java, C# and C++. The support for Ruby, Lisp, Haskell and Perl are still in development.

The challenge has already starded and ends on November 27th.  It sounds quite interesting!!

If you don't know about this game, I can give you some glues. Planet Wars is a strategy game inspired by Galcon Iphone and desktop version. Take a look at Planet Wars game in action:

I am planning to participate also in this challenge. It may be quite interesting for reviewing and practicing machine learning techniques. There is also a rank, let's see which position I will place myself.  ;D

Marcel Caraciolo