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GECCO-2009 – Results of the Second Leg of the Championship

The second leg of the 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship just ended. We received around ten submissions. Five new submissions plus the submissions from CEC-2009. Three participants of the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition updated their drivers.
The three tracks used for the GECCO-2009 leg are: Dirt3, E-road and Alpine.
The results of the first qualifying stage […]

The second leg of the 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship just ended. We received around ten submissions. Five new submissions plus the submissions from CEC-2009. Three participants of the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition updated their drivers.

The three tracks used for the GECCO-2009 leg are: Dirt3, E-road and Alpine.

The results of the first qualifying stage are summarized in the following table:

COBOSTAR is still the fastest controller around but Onieva and Pelta are getting closer and closer. MrRacer was unfortunately disqualified since the controller crashed in one of the tracks. At the end of the first stage eight controllers have been selected (the ones showed in green in the table) and three were eliminated (the red ones in the table above).

In the second stage, for each track, we run eight races with different starting grids and scored the controllers based on their arrival position.

The results are summarized in the following table:

Onieva and Pelta performed really well and actually won this leg of the championship. Congratulations! Their new controller performed really much better than the previous one.

This results reopens the championship since the championship scoreboard has the two teams separated by just few points as shown in this table:

Please, remind that the controller by Luigi, the champion of the CIG2008 competition, appears in the scoreboard but it cannot be awarded with any prize since it belongs to one of the organizing institutions).

I wish to thank all the participants. The next leg will be held during CIG-2009 in Milan and it will be held live so that people will be able to watch an actual race while it is happening.

More news will be posted later.

SIGEVOlution Volume 3, Issue 3, Out Now!

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:
http://www.sigevolution.org

The issue features:

An Interview with John H. Holland with an introduction by Lashon Booker
It’s Not Junk! by Clare Bates Congdon, H. Rex Gaskins, Gerardo M. Nava & Carolyn Mattingly
car racing @ CIG-2008
GECCO-2009 competitions
new issues of journals
calls & calendar

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:
http://www.sigevolution.org

The issue features:

  • An Interview with John H. Holland with an introduction by Lashon Booker
  • It’s Not Junk! by Clare Bates Congdon, H. Rex Gaskins, Gerardo M. Nava & Carolyn Mattingly
  • car racing @ CIG-2008
  • GECCO-2009 competitions
  • new issues of journals
  • calls & calendar

Games @ ITU: Study, Development, Research – 14/5/2009 – 13:00

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On May 14th 2009, 13:00, at the Educafe (Cloister North Building)
Georgios Yannakakis from the Center for Computer Games Research of
IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark, will present an overview of the
research on computer games design at the IT-University and will
illustrate the exchange/thesis opportunities that their center can offer
to our students of first and second level degree.

Location
Educafe – Chiostro Edificio Nord
Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 322

Organizers
Pier Luca Lanzi – lanzi@elet.polimi.it
Daniele Loiacono – loiacono@elet.polimi.it
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione

Design and Development of Videogames @ the Politecnico di Milano

The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione together with Centro
METID organized series of four meetings on the design and development of
videogames.
The brochure is available here
The meetings, hosted at the Educafe, will involve presenters from the
videogaming industry and the Center for Computer Games Research (CGR) of
the IT-University of Copenhagen.
Calendar

April 23 – 13:00 – Design, Progettazione e […]

The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione together with Centro
METID organized series of four meetings on the design and development of
videogames.

The brochure is available here

The meetings, hosted at the Educafe, will involve presenters from the
videogaming industry and the Center for Computer Games Research (CGR) of
the IT-University of Copenhagen.

Calendar

  • April 23 – 13:00 – Design, Progettazione e Sviluppo di Videogiochi in
    Italia: l’esperienza di Milestone (in Italian)
  • May 14 – 13:00 – Games @ ITU: Study, Development, Research, Center for
    Computer Games Research, Copenhagen, Danimarca (in English)
  • June 25 – 13:00 – Videogiochi: dal linguaggio simbolico alla
    rappresentazione della realtà (in Italian)
  • July 9 – 13:00 – To be announced

Location

Educafe – Cloister North Building
Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 322

Organizers

Pier Luca Lanzi – lanzi@elet.polimi.it
Daniele Loiacono – loiacono@elet.polimi.it
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione

Support

Augusto Buzzi & Damiano Zanzarelli
Centro METID

Videos from the first week are now available

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Course Introduction (pdf, video)
Data Mining (pdf, video)
Machine Learning for Data Mining (pdf, video)
Data Representation (pdf, video)
Association Rules Basics (pdf, video)

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the screen. That’s why in the […]

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the screen. That’s why in the next lectures I positioned the videorecording equipment differently.

Another post will follow with the link to the audio/video podcast.