Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Slashdot is blogging on a document evolution visualization tool, and it’s use to view the evolution of Wikis. Given recent IlliGAL blog conversations, this seems like something people might like to check out. The Slashdot original article contains links to downloads and screenshots, so clickthrough.
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I’m back from the almost all-Ivy tour of colleges in the Northeast with my son Max. We started in Boston and ended up in Philadelphia, visiting BU, MIT, Harvard, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, and Penn along the way.
It was interesting being on the consumer end–as opposed to the professor end–of the university business, but it […]

Recently Shigeyoshi Tsutsui told about a beta version of Google Scholar, which seems to be a great engine for finding research papers as well as the papers that cite them. For a long time I used CiteSeer Research Index, but Google Scholar seems to be much more complete. Check it out.
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This is via /. and not related to GA, but its interesting nevertheless :). Mobile PC has a nice article on the history of portable computing. Checkout the 1975 IBM’s mobile machine weighing a whopping 50lbs and the 2004 OQO Model 01 with the first fully functional Windows XP machine that weighed less than a […]

In its newest issue, Discover has an article about shape-shifting robots, called M-TRANs, that rely on gentic algorithms to adapt to the environment. The robot is composed of about a dozen small modules each composed of 2 rotating blocks linked together. Modules can connect to other modules via switching magnets. The M-TRAN […]

Apparently, according to a recent survey by YouGov, the second most difficult part of planning a wedding is doing the table plan. There are about 3.5 million ways to seat just 10 guests in 10 seats. Add family politics and dynamics to it and you get a duanting and time consuming task. According to eMediaWire, […]

I happened upon this site the other day. Not new but it’s pretty fun to play with. It uses a GA to evolve walking styles for some simple artificial skeleton models (a normal joint constrained human skelaton, a catepillar with no legs, and a drunk skelaton). The Java applet has a fairly […]

DISCUS heavily relies on the visualization of text analysis. Yesterday, I met Francesc Alías in Barcelona and we talked about some work we are doing on text to speech systems using traditional and interactive genetic algorithms. Among other technologies, his text-to-speech system relies on an embedded text classifier based on associative relational networks. He […]

Text mining is a raising discipline. If you are interested on it, you may want to take a look at text-mining.org.
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Along with the a competition for human-competitive results produced by GEC, this GECCO has two other competitions:

Developmental systems: The challenge is to provide a novel demonstration of an evolved developmental system. The demonstration should consist of a 2 minute video or software run showing your system grow an interesting artefact.
Physical travelling salesman problem (PTSP): This […]