Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Google now has a blog search engine in beta here, but it is surprisingly inept. Unlike Technorati, Google does not appear to use recency as a key element in its sort, so the results are all over the place. Try it here on “genetic algorithms” and see what I’m talking about. […]

I’m here in Genoa, Italy (tough duty if you can get it) attending the IEEE ICIP 2005 conference. ICIP is quite a large conference surveying the latest in image processing. See here for program details. I’ll be giving a keynote about competent GAs on Wednesday morning and back to scenic Champaign (sigh) […]

IlliGAL alum Kalyanmoy Deb has been named a 2005 winner of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize in Engineering Sciences. See here for more information. Kalyan has done more than any single person to spread the word on multiobjective GAs throughout the planet and he has done more than any single person […]

The NSF has noticed that genetic algorithms are starting to rival human innovation and inventiveness. Hummie winning work out of the University of Texas at Austin received a nice writeup here. Other hummie blog entries may be found here and here. (via Duane Johnson)
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A recently accepted IlliGAL paper (Sastry, K. Johnson, D. D., Goldberg, D. E., & Bellon, P. (2005) Genetic programming for multitimescale modeling, Physical Review B 72, 085438) has also been selected for posting in the 29 August 2005 edition of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology. The paper uses GP to bridge […]

Six interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) papers were presented at an annual Japanese domestic symposium of SOFT held in Tokyo, 9/07-09, 2005.
A. IEC applications
A1: “Interactive Logo Drawing System”
Designing logo marks using IEC
A2: “A System for Beautifying Face Images Using Interactive Evolutionary Computing”
Tuning parameter of image processing system using IEC
A3: “An Interior Layout Support System with Interactive […]

I just returned from CEC 2005 in lovely Edinburgh. I’ll be honest in saying that I didn’t get to attend much of the conference. However, I did see a couple of things I thought were worth sharing.
First, a highlight. David Wolpert gave a keynote on the 10th anniversary of the No Free Lunch theorem. It […]

Here is a chapter-level table of contents for the forthcoming book, The Entrepreneurial Engineer:

The Entrepreneurial Engineer: Ready for the 21st Century
The Joy of Engineering
Money, Work, and You
Getting Organized and Finding Time
Write for Your Life
Present, Don’t Speak
The Human Side of Engineering
Ethics in Matters Small, Large, and Engineering
Pervasive Teamwork
Organizations and Leadership
Assessing Technology Opportunities

Stay tuned for further revelations.
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are usually ill-informed. The blogosphere provides regular examples of this sort of drivel, for example here and here. The first is a rant about how general purpose solvers are doomed and the second complains how machine invention is something of a Rube Goldberg machine.
If blind optimization is as inadequate as NFLers […]

Researchers at the University of Southhampton report success using genetic algorithms to evolve hidden Markov models for the prediction of secondary structure in proteins.
New results are presented for the prediction of secondary structure information for protein sequences using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) evolved using a Genetic Algorithm (GA). We achieved a Q3 measure of 75% […]