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UIUC Holds 10th annnual Reflections | Projections

Posted by michael on from the free-t-shirt dept.

dkaplan1 writes "ACM@UIUC will be holding their 10th annual Reflections | Projections Midwest computing conference on October 22-24. The 3-day event will feature a job fair and numerous speakers including: Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, Andrea Pessino who worked on Warcraft 3, and many others. And be sure to check out MechMania, an intense C++ AI programming contest. Registration for the conference is $20 for meals and a t-shirt. Please visit www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference for details."

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  1. "an intense C++ AI programming contest" by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm surprised that they're not using Ruby, Java, or Python for this... seems like those languages might lend themselves a bit more easily to something like this.

    In fact, the first thing I thought about when I saw this was IBM's Robocode framework - which is in Java.

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