Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Just found a blog named Genetic Algorithm on www.technorati.com. I missed it previously, because I have been searching on “genetic algorithms” (plural). Oops. The owner is apparently working on a thesis devoted to GAs and the traveling salesman problem. Lot’s of water over that dam. Hope he/she considers using competent crossover/mutation […]

A previous post remarked favorably on some of John Searle’s work (let’s sidestep the Chinese room for now). Here’s a picture:

The picture above is one I’ve seen in book jackets before (linked from www.kurzweilai.net).
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Julian Garcia links to the Postmodernism Generator, a site that uses AI techniques to generate sensibly insensible postmodernist essays. Scientists find this kind of thing enormously amusing since Alan Sokal’s famous hoax, but I wonder if the joke isn’t on us. The joke apparently is that postmodern argumentation has an involved set of […]

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired and futurist, has an interesting list of relatively recent innovations in the scientific method. To compile his list, he polled an eclectic group of scientific movers and shakers, and the result is posted here. The list includes “pattern mining,” but it does not include automated invention via genetic […]

This is from Pier-Luca Lanzi:
In July, the Politecnico di Milano will have two PhD studentships in Computer Engineering for Indian candidates. The scholarship includes around 850 euros and accommodation in student dorms.

Those interested, please contact Pier-Luca for additional information about the application procedure.
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The development of population-sizing models for genetic algorithms (Goldberg, Deb, & Clark, 1992; Harik, Cantu-Paz, Goldberg, & Miller, 1999) was important for better understanding of genetic algorithms. Last year, Kumara Sastry, Una-May O’Reilly, and David E. Goldberg published a paper on population sizing for genetic programming based upon decision making. I think that this […]

I was doing some google diving for old blog posts on genetic algorithms and came across an oldie but a goodie that brought back a funny memory. In 1997, I was interviewed by Jessie Scanlon then of Wired Magazine for an article called Mother Nature on a Motherboard. The article was published in the February […]

The following is a post from GP List:
The Artificial Evolution Conference has been recently added to the collection of EC bibliographies. Additionally, the Artificial Evolution Bibliography can be searched via the search interface.
A searchable list of computer-science related bibliographies can be found here, and EC related bibliographies in BibTeX format can be found here. […]

Future feeder has a post on genetic programming and human-competitiveness. Team popcorn appears to be doing a multiple-car race simulation using genetic algorithms here. Kerneltrap discusses the release of a new version of the genetic library patches for tuning the Linux kernel. ForwardMarkets has a post on using agents and genetic algorithms […]

In a previous post, I commented on the dearth and possible rise of academic blogging. In a related vein, Franz Dill has been blogging about the rise of business blogging, both in- and outside the walls of corporations. His latest post is over at IFTF’s Future Now. A particularly good catch was […]