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Mars Rescue Mission Programming Challenge

Frank Buss writes "A new challenge: Mars Rescue Mission. Have fun! Now you can win real prizes."

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  1. Re:Why not write it as a video game? by NaturePhotog · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've already done that. Scroll down and look for "Java and Common Lisp reference implementations". It allows you to play the game, and outputs the command string.

  2. Genetic Algorithm by Samus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like a pretty simple application for a genetic algorithm. I read a book that showed how to do path finding using a GA. You just need the right number and type of censors and the outputs would correspond to what jet to fire. After a while your NN would learn how to fly to any objective on the map. Sounds like a fun little problem.

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  3. FYI - Programming contest tonight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    In case anyone's interested, there's a programming contest late tonight/early tomorrow morning, starting at 08:30 UTC on Nov. 20th (5:30am EST, I believe). It's hosted through the University of Valladolid. Contest details and the problemset will be at http://online-judge.uva.es/contest/when the contest begins. All you need to do is register an account on the UVA system, and submit your answers through the on-line submit-o-matic.

    There are no prizes, the problems are not terribly hard (they are aimed at college-level participants), but you get geek points (whatever those are) and it's fun (in my opinion, at least).