The IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games took place in Perth this year. I was privileged to be ask to be one of the judges for the Computer Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition, the 2K Bot Prize. Excellent! Paid to play games and I won the very nice trophy pictured left for being the most accurate judge.

A cash prize of $7,000 plus a trip to a major games studio in Canberra was on offer for anyone who could create a game-playing bot that passes the "Turing Test for Bots", that is say the bot AI had to convince a panel of five judges that it is actually a human player.

Read how I picked the bots from the humans...

Have turned the focus of my current research to ABM. Using a collection of autonomous decision-making entities called agents it is possible to explore the dynamics of real-world systems, including the relationships between entities, their environment and resulting emergent behaviour. Cool stuff and far more exciting than excel spreadsheets.