Day: August 6, 2004

As you probably already heard, perhaps in Fritz’ LJ entry, or on the Swarthmore home page, we won the Urban Search & Rescue competition. We didn’t just win; we kicked some serious smart people ass ;o). We set a record score for the competition (almost 36 points over 6 rounds). We doubled the second-place team’s…

As I mentioned in my previous post, we didn’t get that many points in the first of our final rounds. We won’t be able to see our detailed score analysis for a while, because the final day on Wednesday was too packed for the NIST team to do anything else, particularly since they were busy…

Just as we experienced last year in Acapulco, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference is a time for very little sleep, very good food, and more coding in a 5-day period than should be humanly possible. My body clock feels like I’m running on Mars time or something. Speaking of which, there’s someone…

I’m packing up my room at this point. I’m also posting some entries I wrote last week during the USR competition at AAAI ’04. They were written during the event, so the point of view is probably a bit skewed. Sorry for the delay, but I’m busy, busy, busy!