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8th Annual AUV Competition Results

Posted by timothy on from the blub-blub-blub-whirrrrrrr dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This weekend the 8th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition was held in San Diego. This year teams were challenged to complete three tasks including finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone marked by an acoustic pinger. Teams from MIT, Cornell, Duke and sixteen others competed for the grand prize. After an intense final round, the University of Florida's Team SubjuGator dethroned MIT and walked away with the victory. Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP on their embedded computer."

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  1. Re:XP Embedded by bedroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously XP has better hardware support. I just look for the submarine with the Windows logo on it at Best Buy.

  2. When something goes wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it show the Blue Screen of Depth?

    1. Re:When something goes wrong by SlayerofGods · · Score: 2, Funny

      I personally would have gone with 'Deep Blue Screen of Death'
      Has a better sound to it ;)

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  3. Re:BSOD by hungrygrue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, you could only get to 70 MPH for the first couple weeks. Being a Windows machine, it would start getting slower and slower... and slower over time. Eventually, the NY Times would run a story suggesting that throwing out your year old car and buying a new one (also running Windows, of course) makes good financial sense compared to the constant repair costs.

  4. is this the same competition by ccordero · · Score: 4, Funny

    where MIT lost against high school students>?

    1. Re:is this the same competition by WillyMF1 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Funny thing is that although the UAV competition is prestigious, even when we won 1st almost nobody outside of the sciences on campus noticed.

      Really? Those guys must have really missed out on some good pickup lines then.

      "Hey baby, wanna come back to my place and see my award for getting things to go down?"

      hmm... maybe not.

  5. Re:XP Embedded by joepeg · · Score: 3, Funny

    "This is the captain speaking..."

    "What are your coordinates?"

    "0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"

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  6. Re:XP Embedded by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Funny

    The embedded version of XP is actually quite nice. I helped configure a version that runs some navigation equipment on airplanes.

    They use XP for navigating on airplanes now? Wow - finally it gives real meaning to the term "Blue screen of death". Maybe this article belongs in the "whirrrrrrr-blub-blub-blub dept." instead. Given the (in)stability of my current XP boxen, I think I'll walk everywhere from now on...

  7. Re:XP Embedded by saider · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that Admiral Protection Fault in the Navy?

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  8. Re:Cornell Sub by myc_lykaon · · Score: 2, Funny
    Of course, they did have a PHD student

    They won, even with that handicap? I'm impressed.

    (Speaking as someone with a PhD :) )