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How to get ants to solve a chess problem

How to get ants to solve a chess problem By Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham Take a set of chess pieces and throw them all away except for one knight. Place the knight on any one of the 64 squares of a chess board. Can you make 63 legal moves so that you visit every […]

2010 Pac-Man Competition at CIG 2010

Last week I attended the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010). This conference (it was actually a symposium in the early days) was started by Simon Lucas and myself in 2005. I also co-chaired the conference with Susil Louis in 2006. The conference has been run every year since 2005, with the […]

The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

I have just arrived in Milan for the 2009 CIG (Computational Intelligence and Games) conference. This was a conference that Simon Lucas and I started in 2005. Simon is now editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games. The 2005 conference, I believe, was partly responsible for paving the way […]