Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

GECCO, day 2. Still blogging offline. The conference has not started yet, but today I am chasing tutorials. I always like the chance to attend different workshops and tutorials for free two days before the conference. As mentioned in an early post, yesterday we had the eighth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems. Today, there […]

Finally, it happened. Today, from 8:50am to 6:30pm we have been involved in IWLCS—you may find the schedule here. In my humble opinion, this has been a great and lively workshop—I saw business card changing hands, envelope calculations, and hallway discussions. We had 17 papers, 3 on going works, and a big discussion session.
The morning […]

This morning I attended Fernando Lobo and Claudio Lima’s workshop–parameter settings in genetic and evolutionary algorithms (PSGEA 2005). It consists of two sessions. The first three talks were about GPs, and the final three were about GAs. One of the main themes of the presentations was about population sizing; however, studies on […]

Xavier, Tian-Li, Paul, Kazuhisa and I left Champaign at 3:00 AM and drove to Washington DC and reached our hotel at around 7:00PM. Xavier and I made the slides for some of our GECCO presentations in the van!
Due to some problems, the wireless access in not yet available, and hopefully it will all be sorted […]

My absence from the airwaves was due to my impromptu college visits with Max Tuesday and Wednesday. We visited Earlham College, Denison University, and Kenyon College. I would like to blog at length about the visits, but suffice it to say right now, that visiting small colleges as opposed to hotshot Ivies is […]

Paul Wiegand passes along the following website as containing useful information for GECCO attendees. GECCO-2005 starts on Saturday and goes until Wednesday. IlliGAL Blogging bloggers intend to blog live from the conference for those of you who can’t attend (and for those of you who can).
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A few days ago, ScienceDaily published an article York Scientists Warn Of Dramatic Impact Of Climate Change On Africa, which reports the use of a genetic algorithm to study the response of plants to climate change and fill in gaps in data.

Because of a scarcity of hard data, the team used a computer programme written […]

Some of the IB members went today to the US Grand Prix of F1 at Indianapolis. It has been a remarkable unique Grand Prix. You may be already aware that no pilot or car has been the rising star of this race. The work of Michelin has put them in the hall of fame. They […]

For some reason, blog search engine Technorati has not been crawling IlliGAL Blogging for the last month or two. The trouble is apparently cleaned up, and you can once again search for IB results using Technorati.
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Robert Plotkin recently started up a blog called Automating Invention that discusses the social and legal implications of computer-automated invention. A full-time patent lawyer and part-time professor at the Boston University School of Law, he offers some noteworthy insights into software patents and addresses David Goldberg’s post on the term “Computer Science vs. Computer […]