Another DARPA-Sponsored Robotics Competition

dexterpexter writes "While some say that DARPA played unfairly in eliminating Grand Challenge teams they deem unworthy, they, the Department of Defense, and General Motors (among others) sponsor an autonomous robotics competition in which they exercise less control over who competes and who does not. The rules are more lenient and the prizes are less illustrious, but this competition still holds the spirit of 'openness' and rewarding innovation that the Grand Challenge seems to have lost. Of course, you must be from a university to compete, but any university-based vehicle passing the competition-day qualifications gets a fair shot at winning. No pre-competition disqualifications. My team has competed for several years."

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Re:Meta-trolling for $$$.

[Animats]

"anti-slash.org" is an empty Apache web server run by a student at the University of Illinois. Is that the right domain?

Re:Meta-trolling for $$$.

[The Cydonian]

Seems to have been taken down after a Level 5 exposure on Slashdot. :-)

But it was there when I first heard of it, some two- three days back.

Re:Meta-trolling for $$$.

[Animats]

anti-slash.org is back. But the student at the University of Illinois at Champlain-Urbania who runs the anti-slash website probably isn't the one who posted the plagarized post. I didn't even find that post in their database of my posts.

Thanks anyway.