For the past month, I’ve been unable to study anything new and sexy. Rather, I’ve been preparing for the ICPC 2010 World Finals.

Most recently, I’ve been working on this:

Essentially, contestants build an AI to battle it out in an FPS-esque arena. It was really quite interesting, although it required serious time input.

For more info, look here. My team really only had one good pre-submission, but our final product should be competitive.

If you’re interested in participating in AI battling tournaments, you might want to check out the newly created ACM Queue Challenge.