The AI Challenge was an international
artificial intelligence programming contest started by the
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...
Computer Science Club.
Initially the contest was for University of Waterloo students only. In 2010, the contest gained sponsorship from Google and allowed it to extend to international students and the general public.
Description
Each participant wrote a self-contained computer program to play a game versus an opponent, and then uploaded the source code to a server. The contest engine used the
Trueskill
TrueSkill is a skill-based ranking system developed by Microsoft for use with video game matchmaking on Xbox Live. Unlike the popular Elo rating system, which was initially designed for chess, TrueSkill is designed to support games with more than t ...
ranking algorithm for matchmaking and to generate the rankings.
After a match, spectators coul
watch the matchusing a browser.
The contest was open source.
''AI Challenge Source Code Repository''
GitHub (2011-03-01) Contestants were welcomed to improve the contest back-end.
Winners
See also
* List of computer science awards
References
External links
AI Challenge
Past Tron (Winter 2010) Challenge
University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
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Programming contests
Computer science competitions