Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

At the beginning of this year, a korean scientist laid the foundation of human-like robots. He has developed a series of artificial chromosomes that will allow robots to feel emotion such as happiness, sadness, anger, sleepiness, hunger or fear. Please see the article, entitled Sex and the single robot, released on Feb. 2 (2005). The […]

Although the dust is still settling from a terrific GECCO-2005, note that GECCO-2006 is just one year away (here). July 8-12, 2006 are the dates, Seattle is the place, and now is the time to mark your calendar and plan to attend the largest, most diverse, high quality conference on genetic algorithms, genetic programming, […]

Wired.com has a post about Peter Jensen’s strandbeest or beach animal. With roots in early computer experiments in genetic algorithms and a-life Jensen is now evolving successive generations of wind-powered robots. See the movie here.
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N. Chakraborti at IIT Kharagpur sent me a copy of this special edition devoted to genetic algorithms of the journal Materials & Manufacturing Processes. His editorial, “The Genetic Secrets of Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel,” says it well:
This collection of 15 papers by eminent academic and industrial researchers from 11 different countries–Australia, Brazil, Finland, […]

The University of Southampton announced that adaptive systems researcher, Sheng Chen, received a personal chair along with three of his colleagues:
It was announced last week that four members of the School had been awarded Personal Chairs. In addition to the four new appointments: Professor Sheng Chen, Professor Paul Lewis, Professor Manfred Oper, and Professor Mark […]

Gary Trudeau has published a Doonesbury cartoon in which one of its characters interviewers a blogger on a radio program. Powerline has a post that includes the cartoon, some commentary, and a cartoonic response.
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TKinJapan thinks that the GECCO proceedings is worth acquiring (full post here):
The folks over at IlliGAL have just gotten back from GECCO. Looking through the TOC from the proceedings is making me add another book to the wish list, as well as causing me to bemoan, at least to a small extent, how busy I […]

WorldChanging blogs a short review of Accelerando by Charles Stross, a novel with a genetic algorithmist as its protagonist. Here is a short quote from the book:
In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he’s the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to […]

Mother penguin, lil penguin, and I went to see Speilberg’s War of the Worlds and we enjoyed it, but I have one techie question for the director: What self-respecting advanced technological society would be satisfied driving a pre-positioned million-year-old tripod in place of the latest vehicle?
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