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>I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to RARS or how I
>can get in touch with the people involved with it?
>thanks,
>-Jay
>BTW for those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking
>about. RARS was a programming competition to create "drivers"
>that "learned" to drive these cars on different tracks. The
>drivers could learn by using neural networks or genetic
>algorithms or anything else you could come up with.
RARS is still going on. There are race events every other Sunday,
alternating between "Stock" cars and "Unlimiteds". There are also a number
of web sites for RARS, a good starting point is Safai Ma's page at:
http://www.io.org/~tfma/rars/
There's also a mailing list that is pretty active. You can subscribe by
sending email to:
with the message:
subscribe rars-l
Finally, you can access the source files, rules and other RARS related
material at:
ftp.ijs.com/pub/rars
We are getting ready to start working on RARS-2. One of the planned
features is a way for non-programmers to compete in the Stock car
competitions. If you have any interest, feel free to join the discussion on
the mailing list.
Dave
