Automatic Tuning Of Car Controllers - UPDATED

Our blog friend and official Viking, Julian Togelius, is asking all the machine learning/artificial intelligence researchers, practioners, enthusiasts, etc. to submit a car controller tuned using your favorite learning algorithm. Further informations may be found here and here. The controllers will be subjected to a competition against each other during a set of races.

If were you, I would submit it immediately! If you don't, then, flee from your hometown or... face the Viking raid!! :)

The first place will be awarded a weekend staying at Valhala, being guided by Valkyries. :)

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I was told, in the comments, by Julian Togelius that there is a video from the last racing car competition they held this year at the last WCCI. See it here.

It is one of the bloodiest races I have ever seen in my whole life!

The blue car is very skilled.

Machine learning researchers of the world, unite! And send your controller to the competition!
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More On The 2007 IEEE Congress On Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

Takayuki Higo has a post upon his report on the 2007 IEEE Congress On Evolutionary Computation (CEC), see here.

Don't forget to check the pictures he took!

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The picture above I took from his Flickr personal album.

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2007 IEEE Congress On Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

Our blog friend, Julian Togelius, has written his own account upon the 2007 IEEE Congress On Evolutionary Computation (CEC), see here.

You can also check some pictures of the congress here.

No complaints on the whole event. It's nice, since the attendee must pay a fee for some basic services - such as, I suppose, internet facilities, lunch place, etc -, what means that the fee was worthwhile. There was even somekind of "safari" through the local zoo!

It seems that the event was O.K.!