I am a software developer, and work in the Multi-Agent Systems department at the research company Profactor.
I had my first exposure to software development in a college for control engineering, and was hooked. In 1999 I began working at CSC Austria (formerly ServoData) as a Junior professional developer where I was involved in developing banking [...]

Some years ago I have played a bit with CoreWars, which is a very interesting programming game. corwars.co.uk seems is now hosting my site, because I am too lazy to integrate the data into my new homepage. Have a look at Yace, exhaust-ma and qMars here.

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I have recently met a really old friend of mine, with whom I have done quite a lot crazy things like building a professional bow and then hunting rabbits, abseiling from a bridge, diving, building remote controlled bombs, etc. (yes we were young and stupid, but it was great and I do not miss a [...]

I have worked on several open source projects.
I am also the creator of Yace (genetic programming of assembler like code, and exhaust-ma (which was the fastest interpreter for Redcode for a long time). In former times I made myself busy with C++, fairly low level optimization, template metaprogramming, etc. but right now I feel more [...]

I have studied software engineering and am currently working for Profactor in the multi agent systems group.
You can contact me with with martin.ankerl@gmail.com.

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