I just spent an enjoyable lunch break reading about the Hutter Prize. Do you know if the paper with a broken link from a few places in its faq which seems to be disparaging Occam's Razor is still online anywhere? A mailing list entry is the most complete summary of it I could find.
There must be quite a few undergrad/graduate/post-doc/???-level researchers on LessWrong. I'm interested in hearing about your work. I'll post about myself in the comments.