I go to Tulane and I can think of about 5 Tulane students I know who helped with the bot at one point or another including one of my good friends. Tulane was mostly helping out with programming and I know they were using Java. The story I heard is the sailboat Gray Insurance had been spending money on sunk, so they decided to enter the grand challenge for fun. Luckily the car wasn't destroyed by Hurricane Katrina (they were keeping it about an hour outside of New Orleans). Some of the Tulane students stopped working with the project after the hurricane because they are attending school this semester in other states (since Tulane is closed right now), but a few of the guys took the semester off to work on it full time.
As a side note, I am impressed that anything my friend touched actually worked and did what it was supposed to since I personally know his track record of breaking things over the past three years (including MY CAR).
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I go to Tulane and I can think of about 5 Tulane students I know who helped with the bot at one point or another including one of my good friends. Tulane was mostly helping out with programming and I know they were using Java. The story I heard is the sailboat Gray Insurance had been spending money on sunk, so they decided to enter the grand challenge for fun. Luckily the car wasn't destroyed by Hurricane Katrina (they were keeping it about an hour outside of New Orleans). Some of the Tulane students stopped working with the project after the hurricane because they are attending school this semester in other states (since Tulane is closed right now), but a few of the guys took the semester off to work on it full time. As a side note, I am impressed that anything my friend touched actually worked and did what it was supposed to since I personally know his track record of breaking things over the past three years (including MY CAR).