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Get Ready for For The 7th ICFP Programming Contest
nate writes "Convinced your favorite programming language provides unbeatable productivity? Convinced you and your friends are world-class programmers? If so, we're providing you the opportunity to prove it! We are pleased to announce the 7th ICFP Programming Contest to be held in conjunction with ICFP 2004. All programmers are invited to enter the contest, either individually or in teams; we especially encourage students to enter. You may use any programming language (or combination of languages) to show your skill." Read on below for the details."On Friday, 4 June at 12:00 Noon (EDT), we will publish a challenge task on the Web site and by e-mail to the contest mailing list. Teams will have 72 hours until Monday, 7 June 12:00 Noon (EDT) to implement a program to perform this task and submit it to the contest judges. We have designed the contest for direct, head-to-head comparison of language technology and programming skill. We have a range of prizes including cash awards and, of course, unlimited bragging rights for the winners.
Previous contests included: 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998."
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Small-Scale Warrior Robot Truck
Phoebus0 writes "The Oregon Health and Science University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been developing what looks like a massive robot truck of the future - only on a slightly smaller scale. It appears to use some fairly cool stuff on a really small platform, literally. It's called the Timbot, and is supposed to be able to act and get around independently, with only high-level instructions. The robot is running embedded Linux with 802.11b ethernet, a micro pan/tilt camera, and a bunch of other sensors. It's partially funded by DARPA, and the current press release can be found here. I want one!" I hope they commericialize and sell this, looks much better than my old Tonka truck. -
Small-Scale Warrior Robot Truck
Phoebus0 writes "The Oregon Health and Science University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been developing what looks like a massive robot truck of the future - only on a slightly smaller scale. It appears to use some fairly cool stuff on a really small platform, literally. It's called the Timbot, and is supposed to be able to act and get around independently, with only high-level instructions. The robot is running embedded Linux with 802.11b ethernet, a micro pan/tilt camera, and a bunch of other sensors. It's partially funded by DARPA, and the current press release can be found here. I want one!" I hope they commericialize and sell this, looks much better than my old Tonka truck. -
ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced
Georgwe Russell writes "The Winners have been announced at the official web site. Looks like OCaml and functional programming have won again, with the 3 member TAPLAS team. There is somewhat of an upset, though. Second place goes to 3-member team Radical TOO, whose entry was written in C! In the lightning round, the virtues of Python as a quick prototyping language were shown in the lightning division's winning entry by the OaSys one-man team. Does the skill of the programmer prevail over the limitations of the language and paradigm used, or is C nearly as good a language as OCaml?" -
2002 ICFP Programming Contest
Phil Bewig writes "The 2002 ICFP Programming Contest begins today. The programming task will be posted at 12:00 noon Pacific Time." Which should be... just about... now. -
2002 ICFP Programming Contest
Phil Bewig writes "The 2002 ICFP Programming Contest begins today. The programming task will be posted at 12:00 noon Pacific Time." Which should be... just about... now. -
ICFP Programming Contest 2002
An anonymous reader writes "Has no one noticed that the ICFP Programming Contest is about to get underway by the end of the week? The prize this year is $1000 and a trip to the conference, which is acutally in the US this year, as compared to Italy last year." What's the ICFP programming contest? See our previous mentions of this open-to-all contest, now in its fifth year. The acronym parses to International Conference on Functional Programming, by the way. -
Does P = NP?
Morabbin writes: "A paper claiming to present a polynomial time algorithm for the minimal clique partition problem has been put up on Stas Busygin's Repository for Hard Problems Solving. It seems to be a genuine attempt (i.e. non-crackpot). Since the minimal clique partition problem is NP-hard, the existence of a polytime algorithm would imply that P = NP. The jury is still out." All right, I'm super skeptical, but its been 2 years since I messed with np complete, np hard, and all that stuff. But I do know enough to doubt it. Where are the CS grad students in the audience? -
Liquid Ocean on Europa?
Ryan Finnin Day writes "A team from University of Arizona proposes an explanation for the arcs visible on the surface of Europa: a liquid sea with 98 foot tidal swells cracking the frozen surface. Also in the story, plans for a NASA probe in 2008 to use a laser altimeter to detect tidal swells. Read all about it." -
Bounds Checking for C?
Kevin Postlewaite writes "This web page describes a modified gcc that protects against stack-smashing attacks by appending a character to return addresses that it pushes to the stack. The program then checks to make sure that the character hasn't been changed, which it must be (though possibly undetectably) in order to overwrite the return address with a buffer overflow. " You can read Some discussion here or some more here. and a project with a similiar goal, to Bounds Checking to C. "