Core War Tournament – Spring 2014

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33835/Core-War-Tournament-Spring-2014/

by timthorn • 12 years ago

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mathetic• 12 years ago

Timing of this tournament cannot be worse for University of Cambridge computer science undergraduates given the examinations start on the 2nd of June.

timthorn2• 12 years ago

But you're entering anyway... ;)

facepalm3• 12 years ago

deadline for entering is already past :-(

impomatic3• 12 years ago

Not if you take your entry to the museum on the day.

facepalm3• 12 years ago

Are you going? I just wonder if it might be possible to send a delegate :-) I can not make it in person, but perhaps somebody could take my submission?

Not that I have anything ready yet, so I probably wouldn't come up with a great warrior in the short time. But it seems a shame to miss it.

willvarfar• 12 years ago

That museum, and the adjacent Station X Bletchley Park are somewhere I am really longing to visit. Anyone been?

I remember corewars... It was old when I started playing and making genetic programming entries for it :). My algos never beat the humans though.

timthorn2• 12 years ago

The museum is not adjacent to Bletchley; Cambridge is about 40 miles away. You might be thinking of The National Museum of Computing which is on the Bletchley Park campus, but the Centre for Computing History is a different concern entirely.

But they're all worth a visit. :)

impomatic3• 12 years ago

There are also a couple of other computer museums open to the public in the UK, one in Swansea, the other in Leicester. I think there's also one in York which you can visit by appointment only.

marktangotango• 12 years ago

I remember reading about Core Wars in the Scientific American article back in 84. To say it blew my mind was an understatement. I was 13, Tron had come out in 82, wow what time to start in computing. Anything seemed possible.

Core War Tournament – Spring 2014

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