Ask HN: Mario AI, Google AI like contests ?

There's a Starcraft AI competition at a conference in Palo Alto this fall, which is probably the hardest in this category of competitions (playing a full Starcraft game well is pretty nontrivial), though there are also three categories for restricted versions of the game: http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition

Links .. http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/

The new Mario AI contest is at http://www.marioai.org