AI

In Catz for Nintendo DS, you adopt an adorable kitten and learn to care for it, cuddle it, dress it, photograph it, and entertain it with toys. Petz Catz 2 enhances the experience with 3D environments, challenges, new breeds, toys, unlockables, and more, while Petz Fashion: Dogz & Catz adds dogs along with a focus on fashion and fashion shows to the already engaging pet care gameplay.

MechMania is a weekend-long AI programming competition held by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. For two years in a row, I was part of a 3-person team from Polytechnic University that trekked out all the way to the middle of nowhere for the competition—with unexpected results.