Connectionists: NIPS RL Competition -- Update

[Adam White]

          NIPS*06 Workshop - Whistler, BC, December 9, 2006

                        "First Annual Reinforcement Learning  
Competition"

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UPDATE
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The competition server is now active!! Registered teams may now  
connect remotely and enter their agents into competition. To register  
your team email: awhite at cs.ualberta.ca

An update to the competition software has also been released.

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Important Dates
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Official start of competition:  October 26, 2006

Competition end: December 3, 2006

Submission deadline for Solution descriptions: December 5, 2006


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Organization Committee
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Adam White, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Richard S. Sutton, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Doina Precup, Mcgill University , Montreal, Canada
Peter Stone, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

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Technical Organization Committee
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Andrew Butcher, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada