Different subfields of AI (Robotics, Computer Vision, NLP, ML, etc) have been holding contests by defining a standard task and challenging researchers to do their best. Examples include the International Planning Competition, the DARPA Urban Challenge for robotic cars, the Robocup robotic soccer league, the TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), the PASCAL Visual Object Classes challenge, and contests in speech recognition and machine translation. Investigate three of these contests, and briefly describe the progress made over the years. To what extent have the contests advanced the state of the art in AI?

Many prestigious universities have a system called a “legacy preference system” which is used to decide which applicants should be accepted to the university. if an applicant’s parent is an alumnus of the university, the applicant will be admitted with lower gpa and sat scores than if the parent is not an alumnus. (there is currently a lot of discussion about the fairness of this system, but universities get a lot of money from their alumni so they are unwilling to change ) your assignment for mp2 is to implement a computerized system like this for a very small prestigious university. the university has two schools, liberal arts and music, each with their own criteria for accepting students. your program must read in certain information about an applicant and print a message saying whether the applicant should be accepted or not.