Google Uses Portal For Programming Contest [Google Code Jam]

by Stuart Houghton at Kotaku

Google has announced details of its annual sponsored Code Jam programming contest. In Round Two, programmers are given a 2D grid representation of a Portal level. The portal guns ‘work’, albeit in 2D. The coder’s task is “Given the maze …

Breaking Free from Genetic Programming

by Derek Ralston at Life Evolver

Genetic programming is the set of instructions each of us was born with. It gives us instinctual drives such as fight-or-flight that are meant to motivate us toward activities which ensure our survival. In modern day society, …