[tansey]

I've been working on OpenNERO this semester, along with Igor Karpov (lead dev), Adam Dziuk, Leif Johnson, and Risto Miikkulainen.

The idea of this tournament is that you are training a population of evolving agents, each controlled by a separate artificial neural network. It's effectively a strategy game where you teach your networks how to react to different inputs (flags, enemies, friends, etc.).

We'll then compete the teams against each other in a massive tournament.

[chlee]

I worked on NERO 5 years ago with many of the same people as well.In fact, we were the first batch of [then] undergrads join the project.

I am very glad to see that the project has continued and is still going strong.