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Learnfun and Playfun: A Nintendo Automation System
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Summary
Tom Murphy explores the automation of Nintendo Entertainment System game playing, using the mathematically elegant and amusingly simple techniques of lexicographic ordering and time travel.
Bio
Tom Murphy VII is a professional software-person and whimsical research-hobbyist who has made over one jillion miscellaneous thingies. His specialty is creating under duress: Games, music, writing, fonts, and so on; this helps to explain both the quantity and the spottiness. He did his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon on the theory and practice of modal type systems for distributed programming.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Jan 23, 2014
Community comments
Where is the demo?
by Asa Ayers,
Re: Where is the demo?
by Tom Murphy,
Where is the demo?
by Asa Ayers,
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The demo, which I think sounds like the most interesting part is just cut off the end of the video.
Re: Where is the demo?
by Tom Murphy,
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The demo was in a different room and not recorded, sorry. BUT, there are several good videos online with lots of demos of it playing: tom7.org/mario/