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    Tron Bot Nuts & Bolts – Full Source

    Below is the full sourcecode to my tron bot. The final tournament is currently under way.

    My bot uses a fairly basic minimax function with alpha beta cut offs. When both bots are competing for the same space, the evaluation function tries to control more space by being closer to more squares than the opponent. [...]

    February 27th, 2010 | Category: Programming | Leave a comment

    Tron Bot – Nuts & Bolts – Queue

    As I mentioned in my previous post, I entered a Tron bot into the University of Waterloo Google AI Challenge. My bot is currently hovering the top ten in the preliminary rounds.

    I plan to post all the code to my bot, but not the interesting pieces until after the final tournament has taken place.  [...]

    February 24th, 2010 | Category: Programming | Leave a comment

    Google AI Challenge

    I entered a tron bot into the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club Google AI Challenge. It’s currrently around 170th. It’s not really all that fancy or smart.

    Click here for my bot’s page.

    February 12th, 2010 | Category: Programming | Leave a comment

    PLT Scheme and LDAP authentication

    I recently was trying to figure out how to do user authentication on our company’s Active Directory LDAP server. Using a combination of openldap and the linux and mac side and Microsoft’s LDAP library, I was able to create a small module that can authenticate users and works cross platform.

    The code uses PLT Scheme’s [...]

    February 5th, 2010 | Category: Programming | Leave a comment