Amitabh wins the Best Result prize
Just before midnight last night, Greenwich Mean Time, Amitabh Verma submitted All Guns Blazing. Using 174 seconds worth of CPU time, it cruised limbo-style beneath the timeout limit, generating a...
View ArticleAlex P. and the Anatomy of a Tweak
Congratulations to Alex P., winner of the Square One Challenge with his SOC tweak. Michael Bindschadler came close… so close! to winning. But from the newsgroup, we read this heartbreaking story....
View ArticleVines Contest queue is now closed
The Vines contest queue is now closed. The Grand Prize Winner will be declared after all entries submitted before noon (Natick time) are processed. You can check the queue at the Vines Contest website...
View ArticleAlfonso is the Winner!
Wow! What a finish. A lot of us thought that Nick was going to do it again. The cyclist even named one of his last entries Can’t beat Nicholas Howe. We knew the end was near, because Magnus S. named...
View ArticleSee You at the Spring Contest!
The Contest team is finishing up our last activities for the Vines Contest. Prizes to the winners have been packaged up and are on the way to their various final destinations. Stories from the...
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Spring Contest Starts Tomorrow
The spring MATLAB Contest kicks-off tomorrow, April 4, at 16:00 UTC. If you want to get some practice in before the contest starts, check out the Tiles Challenge at Cody. The contest team has created 6...
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Spring Contest “Tiles” is Underway!
Welcome to the Tiles Contest! Our Spring Contest is officially underway and will run for one week, until 16:00 UTC Wednesday April 11th. To get started, read the contest overview and rules. The sample...
View ArticleNicholas Howe, Prince of Darkness
Andreas Bonelli gave him a good run for his money, but once again, Nicholas Howe tops the list, winning his Nth contest badge, where N is a very large integer. Nicholas sent us 14 submissions on his...
View ArticleVitor is victorious!
Vitor Yano wins our Twilight Phase with his entry vamos ver se melhora. It’s exciting to see that three people (Vitor, Werner, and Andreas Bonelli) were able to improve on Nicholas Howe’s winning score...
View ArticleSergey’s Cat is the Early Bird
One of these days I hope Sergey will tell us the story of why his entries are all named after cats in one way or another. But in the meantime we can still congratulate this highly-decorated contest...
View ArticleWeekend prizes
Our congratulations to Michael C. for his Saturday Leap winner What have I done…. Here’s what you’ve done Michael: you submitted Saturday’s single best improvement to the contest algorithm, and for...
View ArticleUpcoming mini-contests
Hear ye! Hear ye! Before the run-up to the Grand Prize on Wednesday, we will award prizes for the following: Best Result by 21:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday). As long as you don’t time out, CPU time is not...
View ArticleThat was fast!
Fel wins the 11k Challenge. We were looking for the first entry to post a score better than 11,000, and his TLM @ -256.15 ºC did the trick. With a score of 10999.2, it just cleared the wire, but that’s...
View ArticleYi Cao Gets Good Results
The magic number is 108344. In six or so days of slugging away at the Tiles problem, no one has gotten a better “result” number. You remember we separate the contest score (which is a combination of...
View ArticleSergey’s Cats are Best of Show
You can learn a lot from the names of contest entries. Nuwan Ganganath had a series of submissions reporting the news from Indonesia and Sri Lanka about the recent earthquake. I might have learned more...
View ArticleFall MATLAB Contest starts on October 31
Get ready for the next MATLAB Contest! We’re in the final planning stages and excited to kick-off another season. We’ll start at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 31 and run through 16:00 UTC November...
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Knots Contest is Now Open
The Fall 2012 MATLAB Contest is a problem that most of us have encountered – How do you get that pesky knot untied? Welcome to the Knots Contest! Our Fall contest will run from 16:00 UTC Wednesday, 31...
View ArticleThe End of an Era
Fourteen years ago, a small group of us here at MathWorks launched the first MATLAB Programming Contest. We wanted it to be a different sort of contest, one that did a better job of mimicking the way...
View ArticleSome say he’s our latest Prince of Darkness
Is that you Magnus? Hannes Naudé, winner of the 2010 Sensor contest, is back with a commanding lead after 24 hours of algorithmic gloom, making him our newest Prince of Darkness. His entry title lifts...
View ArticleTwilight winner and upcoming Mini-Contests
Our old friend (and two-time Grand Prize champion) Alfonso Nieto-Castañón has shouldered aside the competition to claim the Twilight Prize. Let’s hope this trophy isn’t the one that causes his groaning...
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