Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Yesterday, Chuck Karr, noted researcher in combining fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, was named to be the University of Alabama’s dean of engineering (see here). I started my academic teaching career at Alabama from 1984 to 1990, and Chuck Karr was my first PhD graduate (1989). Chuck comes to the dean’s job with stints as […]

The blog pessux (Pro Evolutionary Soccer at Sussex) is blogging on the development of a soccer learning and playing simulation that uses genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation. The team of developers is using a blog to document their progress, and they have been posting vigorously over the last week or so. The progress […]

This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and for my family that means that it is the beginning of sailing season on Lake Michigan. Today we board our time-share lease 33-foot Beneteau sailboat Urdragon and go sailing at Fairwind Sailing in Burnham Harbor near the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Of course, readers of this […]

I’ve been using Electric Sheep in my screensaver rotation for over a year, and I just now realized that it is a form of collaborative GA-based art.
I strongly recommend folks check it out. Warning, it will hypnotize the unsuspecting.
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Since I’m busy bashing AI, have a look at Autoblogger, an AI program that does your blogging for you!
Make sure and check out the “real stories” of how it’s generating most of the blogs everyone reads these days.
(Could Goldberg be using Autoblogger? Surely he can’t have that much free time on his hands!)

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An all-to-familiar item showed up in my blog in tray today. Londonist blogged:
There is something really beguiling about human Vs computer chess matches.
Despite the main elements being a bloke who plays chess and a very complicated bit of software, these kind of matchups somehow transcend simple geekiness.
Maybe we feel there’s something lurking in […]

I’m blogging live from Stephen Lu’s ECN Workshop (Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation) in Shanghai. Stephen has also discovered postmodern thinking (see here) & Searle (see DEG 2004 paper here and Searle post here) and its relevancy to a new kind of systems engineering. Stephen’s view is that to put people appropriately in the […]

The COMCEV ‘2005 has opened its doors. A small note on my way to lunch; Thomas Stützle presented and interesting overview on stochastic local search methods. The slides will be added soon to his home page.
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Technology review news reports here that Hod Lipson and coworkers at Cornell have built simple modular robots that reproduce themselves:

The Cornell machines, dubbed Molecubes, measure 10 centimeters to a side and are split diagonally. Each cube half swivels on a motorized axel in 120-degree increments. The cube faces have electromagnets that strengthen and weaken […]

After a funny trip that last from 36 hours instead of the 11 intended, I finally got to Aguascalientes (México). Felipe Padilla invited me to give a talk about the role of evolutionary computation in collaborative innovation and creativity at the Second Mexican Conference on Evolutionary Computation (COMCEV’2005). This is not a déjà vu or, […]