From matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 8 10:38:43 2012 From: matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:38:43 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] UCC::ProgComp 2012 Message-ID: <20120108103843.15853v5029xz7lyc@secure.ucc.asn.au> Good morning UCC, The UCC will be hosting another programming competition this year (the last one was held at the end of 2010). This time, contestants are given an opportunity to demonstrate their inner genius by writing an AI to play the popular board game of Stratego. Stratego is a simple board game of incomplete information, which (as the name may suggest) allows for a wide range of strategies involving both initial piece setup and subsequent game play. Competing AIs will play against each other. The competition is now open and will be held on the 10th of March. For those who are interested, more information is available on the competition website: http://progcomp.ucc.asn.au From this point onwards all emails regarding the competition will be sent to the progcomp mailing list, which you can join at http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/progcomp Sam Moore (matches) [SZM] UCC OCM 2011 From mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jan 12 18:26:50 2012 From: mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Matt Didcoe) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:26:50 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] Membership renewals for 2012 Message-ID: Happy New Year to all! First off, apologies for cross posting this, but I want to make sure we get everyone. As a number of you would be aware, each year the membership renewal process drags on (and on....and on). To give you all plenty of notice, please see the following info in relation to membership renewals for 2012 memberships. Q: When is membership due? A: Membership is due by close of business Friday, March 2 2012. Q: But I only just paid up! A: Well, that's not a question, but yeah - we understand your pain and will be investigating half year memberships soon for those who join later in the year. We are not looking at doing prorata memberships. We hope you understand and will rejoin. Q: How do I renew? A: Same as always - details, including the 2012 membership form are available at http://ucc.asn.au/member/2012 All memberships that are not renewed by close of business Friday, March 9 2012 will be subject to account locking. A reminder that memberships must be paid for your vote to count at the Annual General Meeting - we will not be accepting money at the meeting (or just before, as we need to prepare lists of financial members ahead of time). Cheers -- Matt Didcoe [MRD] Vice-President (2011) / Wheel member mattman at ucc