BW AI Conference!

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

April 13 2011 19:06 GMT

I just received a notification from a mailing list that an academic conference is to be held in which the subject is game AI applied to broodwar!

Call for Participation ===== CIG 2011 Starcraft RTS AI competition

You are an amazing AI programmer and Starcraft is your favorite game?
Ever wondered if you could do "it" better? Then check out our
Starcraft Bot Competition, send us your submission, and enter the
tournament!

Join us at the Conference for Computational Intelligence in Games
(CIG) 2011
in Seoul, Korea, and crush your enemies!"

Submission: August 15
Conference: August 31 - September 3

http://ls11-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/rts-competition/starcraft-cig2011

Organizing Committee
Tobias Mahlmann, IT University Copenhagen
Mike Preuss, Technische Universität Dortmund

For any comments or inquiries, please write to starcraft@ls11.cs.tu-
dortmund.de

Is anyone going to go for it? I really wish I had the time for this; if you get a submission accepted it's likely that the conference will offer scholarships for students attending and you'll end up getting a cheap trip to korea on top of competing.

kamikami

France1057 Posts

April 13 2011 20:18 GMT

Oh my god, I can't believe the words "crush your enemies" are being applied in a formal letter sent by an university committee.

What's next ? "GG no re thx ownzed lolol"

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

April 13 2011 20:25 GMT

someone is going to get crushed

, little overzealous aren't we university?
Enemies refer to as AI programmers?O.o

mucker

United States1120 Posts

April 13 2011 22:15 GMT

Hope to see some cool stuff come out of this. Wish I had time for this too...

Branch.AUT

Austria853 Posts

April 13 2011 22:24 GMT

wasn't there someone posting in the blog section 1-2 weeks ago about an AI he made asking for help on improving his micro, or was that in the strategy forums? I think he posted on the strategy forums but got moved or something. He didn't mention the AI in the OP though, just asked for microing tips

Not sure if he wasn't doing an SC2 AI anymore though? I don't know for sure anymore but I think it was BW. I think his AI even was kinda good but i can't really judge that. I also can't remember the guys name but maybe he'll see this / already knows about it.

Anyways if someone from round here (teamliquid that is) can win this, it would definately be awesome!

SgtSquiglz

United States668 Posts

April 13 2011 23:45 GMT

This actually sounds similar (but cooler) than what we have a group doing here at UofM. The competition itself sounds similar (make a BW AI module using BWAPI), but I think the one we do is one where you just submit your code online and they let you know the results later. Its the AIIDE competition that the mention briefly.

If this one actually sends you to the conference, that would be awesome.