Skip to Main Content Skip to Search
File Exchange
MATLAB Newsgroup
Link Exchange
  Blogs  
 Contest 
MathWorks.com

MATLAB Programming Contest Blog

May 1st, 2008

David Jones wins Wiring Darkness Challenge

The first phase of the Wiring contest has passed. At noontime today, we finished Darkness and have now entered Twilight. This phase runs until noon Friday.

Things were off and running as soon as the challenge was posted. Entries were posted continually through the noon deadline, with David Jones, a MATLAB Contest veteran, in the lead. Congratulations once again to David!

Here were the top 10 in Darkness:

1 David Jones
2 Nick Howe
3 Claus Still
4 Steve Hoelzer
5 nathan q
6 Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
7 Fabio Carnevale
8 Schwabenpower
9 Michael
10 DreadNox
Keep up the great work all!

Helen

By Helen Chen

2:41 pm | Posted in Wiring | Permalink |

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Leave a Reply

About

The MATLAB Programming Contest is a semi-annual competition where contestants submit MATLAB code to try to solve a challenge. For more information, see the overview.

Subscribe

Recent Comments

  • Helen Chen: Hurray for Yi! That is a really great accomplishment! Helen
  • David Jones: Thanks for sharing your analysis Alan. As you have argued persuasively, it looks like 13,000 is...
  • OkinawaDolphin: It seems that new entries don’t show up anymore because the queue is clogged.
  • srach: Yeah, but in 4 hours David Jones wakes up (if he does sleep at all) and pulls a rabbit out of his hat which...
  • Yi Cao: Nice analysis, Alan. It was my original judgement as well when the challenge was announced.
  • Alan Chalker: While I haven’t had much time to compete in this contest, I’ve done some analysis and...
  • Matthew: Good point. Done!
  • MikeR: I am assuming you are going to apply the constraint that this challenge applies to the new testsuite.
  • DrSeuss: I wonder if a score-neutral test-suite swap is even possible. ;-)
  • Alan Chalker: As I usually do, I’ve now posted a heavily commented version of the leading code so that those of...

Blog Admin

These postings are the author's and don't necessarily represent the opinions of The MathWorks.
Related Topics