Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) has posted new content, including new videos and ppts.  For example, Patents in One Easy Lesson is a new video interview of USPTO veteran John Calvert, and Is Science Merely Applied Engineering is a new powerpoint presentation.  Go here to see more.

See the press release here or the website here. The plan combines digital media, concern for the first year, and so-called HAPI themes in the humanities and social sciences.

The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) has created a new web page (here), and that page links to iFoundry’s YouTube channel, iFoundry’s SlideShare slidespace and a Facebook Friends of iFoundry Group. iFoundry is a College of Engineering initiative at the University of Illinois to transform engineering education from a curriculum formed in the crucible of the cold war to one in tune with the 21st century.

A new 5-minute video is available over at TEE (here).  More information on the iFoundry initiative (Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education) is available here.

I’m trying to do some short YouTube lectures. My first one is over at TEE here. It’s called Engineers as Category Creators.  Or your can go straight to my YouTube channel here.

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:

http://www.sigevolution.org

The issue features:

• A Tale of Human Competiveness by Jaume Bacardit, Michael Stout, and
  Natalio Krasnogor
• Optimization of Store Performance by Cem Baydar
• Is this the Future of Academic Publishing? A letter by William. B. Langdon,
• Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (GAFFitter) by Douglas A. Augusto
• Announcements
• CIGPU at WCCI-2008
• Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

The video of Martin Pelikan’s tutorial on Probabilistic Model Building GAs is available here the slides are available here.

The video of Stewart Wilson’s talk at IWLCS-2008, titled “Classifier Conditions Using GEP”, is available here the slides are available here.

The first video to advertise GECCO-2009 competitions is finally online here.

More video will come …

The second call for papers for the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering is available here.   The workshop will be held 10-12 November 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) in London at The Royal Academy of Engineering.  There are three demes, one for philosphers (philosophy), one for engineers (reflections of practitioners), and one for ethicists (ethics), and papers submitted to each deme are reviewed by members of their respective community.  Those who want to submit and haven’t done so should get busy and start writing.  The submissions deadline is just over a month away!