[Cs4800] Avatar Defense Sessions

[Karl Lieberherr]

The avatar defense sessions take place in my office. The schedule is here:

http://doodle.com/edd4pymb7spuzc97

Please bring a laptop with your algorithm ready to be inspected. Make sure
that your code is readable (e.g., meaningful variable names) and uses
appropriate documentation so that your algorithm is understandable.

-- Karl

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> Avatar Defense Sessions
>
> We will continue offering tournaments.
>
> Some of your avatars seem to have been mistreated by either the SCG Court
> software or the playground software for HSR and MMG. We have developed the
> SCG Court software and playground software without any intention of harming
> the right of avatars to get fair evaluations. Indeed, we have built SCG
> Court with the goal of being a fair evaluation system for algorithms
> and claims about them (there are several other goals too).
>
> We apologize for any mistreatment of your avatar. Significant effort has
> gone into avoiding any such mistreatment.
>
> For those of you who feel that your avatar did not get a fair chance, we
> will organize 15 minute avatar defense sessions. The purpose of those
> sessions is that  you can present all the positive attributes of your
> avatar which did not shine through in the tournament results. You are also
> encouraged to present specific instances of mistreatment
> of your avatar denying it a fair chance to compete.
>
> The defense sessions will take place on Tuesday Dec. 6.
>
> Independent of the Avatar Defense Sessions
> we will evaluate the source code of all your avatars.
>
> Your audience will be Ravi, Karl, and representatives from the graduate
> class CS 5500 who tried hard to give your avatar a fair evaluation. Ahmed
> might also be there.
>
> I will send out a schedule on Friday after a few more tournaments.
>
> I know that many of you spent significant time on designing and
> implementing
> your avatar and those avatar defense sessions will compensate for
> any points you lost without your fault in tournaments.
>
> -- Karl
>
>
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