The Lock Haven University Computer Science Department held its first dTank programming contest on December 11, 2003. Students in the Structure of Programming Languages class developed intelligent tanks using the Jess rule-based programming language and dTank.
Jess was developed by Ernest Friedman-Hill at Sandia National Laboratories, and dTank was developed by Isaac Councill, a PhD student in the Applied Cognitive Science Lab at at the Pennsylvania State University's school of Information Sciences and Technology
The winner of the contest was Matt Kull. Congratulations Matt! If any other students or universities are interested in developing tanks of their own using Jess, be sure to check out the dTank/Jess programming page.
Here are final tournament results with links to the student's tanks. To see the code for any of the tanks just click on the student's name:
| Miroslav Jelev | ||||
| Rob Mraovich | ||||
| Rob Mraovich | Brad Freezer | |||
| Brad Freezer | ||||
| Andy Stanton | Dan Matriccino | |||
| Dan Matriccino | ||||
| Dan Matriccino | Dan Matriccino | Matt Kull | ||
| Jon Sywulak | ||||
| Zach Funt | ||||
| Matt Kull | ||||
| Matt Kull | Matt Kull | |||
| Dave Daku |
*Note: The tournament used an empty world file with no obstacles, and students were told to only worry about having to fight a single tank at a time.