Introducing Ants :
The AI Challenge is all about creating artificial intelligence, whether you are a beginning programmer or an expert. Using one of the easy-to-use starter kits, you will create a computer program (in any language) that controls a colony of ants which fight against other colonies for domination.
It only takes 5 minutes to submit one of the starter kits to the website and watch your ant colony fight for domination against colonies created by other people from around the world. From there check out the tutorials on how to locally run your bot and begin programming!

Contest Schedule :
The current phase of the contest will end December 18th at 11:59pm EST. At that time submissions will be closed. Shortly thereafter the final tournament will be started. The length of the final tournament has not yet been determined but is expected to last less than one week. Upon completion the contest winner will be announced and all results will be publically available.

http://ants.aichallenge.org/

Rules :
* The final rankings will be determined using a computerized tournament designed by the contest organizer. The official results will be final. The ongoing rankings on the leaderboard are not official and may not be representative of the final results.
* You can only have one account. If you have effective control over more than one account, even if the accounts are all nominally owned by other people, you will be disqualified.
* Entries which are deemed to violate the spirit of fair and sportsmanlike competition will be disqualified without any opportunity for appeal. In particular, memory scanning, manipulating rankings by intentionally losing games, and trying to gather information about your opponent or the game state through means outside of the bot input protocol are prohibited.
* Data written to files will not be preserved between games and a bot found to be writing excessive amounts (more than 10MB) will be disqualified.
* Actively using multiple processes or OS threads is not allowed. Some language runtimes will not operate without using multiple OS threads so we allow the creation of a limited number. But a bot found to be running active computation on more than one will be disqualified.
* As one would hope should not even need mentioning; any attempt to bypass or disable the contest's security measures, disrupt the contest software or servers, or otherwise interfere with normal operation of the contest is of course prohibited.
* We reserve the right to change these rules at any time without notice.

Credits
The Google AI Challenge is designed, built, and operated completely by volunteers. As the number of participants has steadily grown, so has the amount of work required to make it all happen.
With the move to fully open-source, many of the contestants have been contributing code to help us keep up with the volume of feature requests and bug fixes. Thank you.
There are a few people who have been especially generous with their time and expertise. Our special thanks goes out to these individuals.

Ants
* Original Idea: Mistmanov
* j3camero (Jeff Cameron)
* antimatroid (Nick Ham)
* McLeopold (Scott Hamilton)
* Visualizer: Frontier (Marco Leise)