Cameron Browne, an RA in the Computational Creativity Group here in the Department of Computing has won the prestigious annual "Humies" prize.

Cameron Browne, an RA in the Computational Creativity Group has won the the prestigious annual "Humies" prize. The prize is very prestigious and comes with a personal award of $5,000.

The competition was held as part of the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference. To enter the compettion entrants must have published results within the past year, and satisfied one or more of 8 specified human-competitive criteria.

Cameron was up against some very tough competition, but was considered the top entrant and was awarded the top "Gold" prize for his efforts in evolving game designs, which are now on sale.

Details  of the winners are:

Human-Competitive Results Awards
$10,000 in prizes
Sponsored by Third Millennium On-Line Products, Inc.  

Judges for 2012 were:
• Wolfgang Banzhaf
• Erik Goodman
• Una-May O’Reilly
• Lee Spector
• Darrell Whitley
 
Honorable Mention
Two awardees (in alphabetical order):
 
Honorable Mention
• Uday Kamath
• Amarda Shehu
• Kenneth A. De Jong
 
Genetic Programming Based Feature Generation
for Automated DNA Sequence Analysis
 
Honorable Mention
• Ernesto Sanchez
• Giovanni Squillero
• Alberto Tonda
 
Automatic Generation of Software-based
Functional Failing Test

 Bronze Award (and $2,000)
• Michael Dewey-Vogt
• Stephanie Forrest
• Claire Le Goues
• Westley Weimer
 
Scalable Human-Competitive Software Repair
 

Silver Award (and $3,000)

• Richard A.J. Woolley
• Julian Stirling
• Philip Moriarty
• Natalio Krasnogor
• Adrian Radocea
 
Automated probe microscopy via evolutionary
optimization at the atomic scale

Gold Award (and $5,000)
• Cameron Browne
 
Evolutionary Game Design