Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Carlos Cotta just wrote me an interesting e-mai:
I’m contacting you regarding an analysis we have recently done on the structure of the evolutionary computation community using social network techniques. Besides macroscopic properties of the collaboration network, we have studied which the central actors (that is, authors of EC papers) of the network are on […]

Then this site reminded me of Dave Carroll’s fortran genetic algorithm code (see here). Its a fairly simple GA with more than the usual bells and whistles.
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ArchiKluge is a pretty java-based demo that
ArchiKluge is a simple Genetic Algorithm that evolves architectural diagrams. It explores the qualities of design made by machines, devoid of any intention, assumptions or prejudices, and which often display a very peculiar form of mindlessly but relentlessly pounding against obstacles and problems until overcoming them, a manner of […]

Hybrid Car Reviews has a quirky collection of articles on hybrid genetic algorithms here. When doing theoretical studies, it is important not to make matters messy by throwing to many helpers into the mix. In applications studies, most practitioners find it useful to hybrid GAs with some local procedure.
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For the past year, by day I’ve been a mild-mannered engineering professor, but by evening I’ve been a wild and crazy chief scientist for a start up in ubiquitous personalization called Nextumi (see here). The other day I was thinking about our progression from the formation of the company to our current state […]

Italy is a small country. Artificial Intelligence in Italy is a very small community, mainly consisting of researchers in the so called “classical AI”. However, yesterday the 1st italian workshop on Evolutionary Computation took place during the 9th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. Around 20 researchers and other 20 master students of […]

The University of Illinois has drawn heat from the NCAA and its recent ruling on mascots. The Fighting Illini are represented at halftime shows by a fellow wearing Indian headgear and doing a dance, and campus has been exercised about this for some time (see here). I’m something of an agnostic on […]

Chapter 2, entitled The Joy of Engineering, in my forthcoming book The Entrepreneurial Engineer (see previous posts here and here) covers a variety of topics of interest to engineers and computer scientists.
Chapter 2 The Joy of Engineering
2.1 A Joyous Confession
2.2 Engineering as Liberal Education, Launch Pad & Lifelong Love
2.2.1 Who is getting the real […]

The Program Witch Pages has an interesting post on a screen saver called Electric Sheep that evolves abstract images (called sheep) using a distributed interactive genetic algorithm in which the images are evolved through the decisions of many screen saver users. The screensaver may be downloaded here. The program was conceived by CMU PhD grad […]

A month-old blog called Computationalism presents a variety of reviews of books and articles of interest to genetic algorithmists and artificial evolutionaries. For example, Chris Langton’s 1997 book collection of papers on artificial life is reviewed here. Gary Cziko’s book, Without Miracles, is reviewed as well (see here). This interesting […]