From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:16:27 +0100
Date: 2004-09-22T15:16:27+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415187d0_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.58.1095858154.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do with
> programming language. It is almost invariably an artificial
> intelligence problem. The success depends on the artificial
> intelligence method devised, not on the choice of programming
> language. (For the 2004 ants problem I think I would have bet on a
> genetic programming solution.)
>
> Unfortunately the problems are the only interesting thing in these
> contests. The prize money is too low (specially after division by 5 or
> 10 team members), the choice of programming language is a false target
> as I said, and the winners are called bad names ("discriminating
> hacker") go figure!
But - there's no such thing as bad publicity...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-22 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 20:19 ICFP2004 results are in Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 0:15 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 3:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 15:08 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 15:14 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 17:30 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 17:42 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 19:25 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 19:31 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:32 ` Rod Chapman
2004-09-23 1:41 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 8:35 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-23 13:07 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:13 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 1:38 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 23:54 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 14:15 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-23 23:58 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-24 1:33 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 12:04 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 12:56 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 19:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 13:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-22 14:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 21:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 21:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 14:16 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-09-22 14:29 ` stephane richard
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2004-10-02 12:27 ` Andrew
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