Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Just finished a terrific Teaching Company video course Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche taught by husband and wife tag team Kathleen Higgins and Robert Solomon of the University of Texas at Austin. The sequence and choice of material, and the consistent quality of the lectures made this series a joy to […]

Hugh Hewitt has a longish post on the transformation that is taking place in mass media, partially a result of blogging. His key point is that whereas once trust followed large audiences, today audiences follow trust. Although Hewitt focuses on news and commentary media, the longer term effects on business and academic life […]

I’m on a serious Martin E. P. Seligman reading kick. If you haven’t done so, take a look at the following books:
Seligman, M. E. P. (1998). Learned optimism. New York: Free Press.
Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Authentic happiness. New York: Free Press.
Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Character strengths and virtues: A […]

I was reading the last issue of the Communications of ACM (April, 2005; pp. 113-116) and found an article on a P2P environment for GA applications.
Pier Luca
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Ying-Ping Chen and Jian-Hung Chen (former IlliGAL members) are organizing a special issue for the international journal of information systems for logistics and management (JISLM). JISLM is a quite new journal but GEA friendly. This special issue on computational intelligence and soft computing welcomes any GEC related paper. It’s always good to […]

Martin Butz had an interesting comment on my post about machine consciousness (it deserved post status), so I’m quoting from it here:
Certainly I agree that also consciousness is an emergent property composed out of many modules, many (local) interactions through connections that are biased in one way or the other. What might be the most […]

In 1999, two conferences combined to form the conference currently known as the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO). The GP conference was one of those, and the ICGA conference (International Conference for Genetic Algorithms) was the other. ICGA was the first regular conference in the field of evolutionary computation, and the first […]

Alamopoker.com has a post (here) to the abstract of a CEC paper that used evolutionary computation to learn to play poker. This reminded me that the original use of Steve Smith’s LS-1 system (the original Pittsburgh genetics-based machine learning system) was to learn poker. That work was completed almost 25 years ago (S.F. […]

Hat tip to my colleague Harrison Kim for pointing me to the Business Week article, Blogs Will Change Your Business. The authors also have a new blog on blogging called blogspotting.
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gmtPlus09 picks up on DISCUS here.
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