Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

IlliGAL blogger and all around bon vivant Rob Smith has moved from Bristol to London and has set up shop (officially?) at University College of London (see here). Rob’s rounduit blog continues to explore the realm of those things we all would like to get around to (get roundtuit, get it?).
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Interesting post at My Heart’s in Accra about the PACE project or Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution. The post centers on Norm Packard’s role, but the website reveals an EU-funded effort of many collaborators. Norm was a UIUC colleague when I first arrived here in 1990. He went on to co-found the Prediction Company […]

A day in the life of the squiggle links to a game of tag played by an genetic-algorithm evolved population here.
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Previously I have raved about the Teaching Company (see here), and last week I just finished another terrific course called the Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy by Edward Larson at Georgia. This morning I started a new course called Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning byDavid Zarefsky at Northwestern. I continue […]

The Mercury News has recently published an article Machines are catching up to human intelligence by Robert S. Boyd. The article discusses the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) and mentions a number of important AI applications.
Besides others, they mention the use of genetic algorithms for satellite design at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, […]

I just came back from Xin Yao’s talk on Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. It was good to see Xin Yao at our department and have an inspiring discussion. Besides other interesting ideas, Xin Yao talked about a more realistic iterated prisoner’s dilemma with more than two levels of cooperation and the effects of assigning a reputation […]

While surfing the web I found a nice Java applet that shows a skeleton that is learning to walk using a genetic algorithm, you can find it here.
The demo is on the site of MajorSpot, who provides an artificial intelligence SDK that includes genetic algorithms, neural networks, natural language processing, and other components:

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Fujitsu Chugoku Systems Ltd. and Fujitsu Ltd. announced that they had developed Nurse Scheduler V4.0 with Prof. Kamei’s lab of Ritsumeikan University, and both companies put it on the market on 10/21/05. See Japanese press release in detail.
They started to sell Nurse Scheduler V1 and V2 in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Competitive GA was applied […]

Henry Kang, who is one of my colleagues here in St. Louis, published several interesting papers about using evolutionary algorithms for sketching and painting. You can find some examples of the results on his web page including PDFs of the papers.
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Recently, I’ve read an article at the Air Force Research Lab Technology Horizons about using genetic algorithms to evolve wavelet transforms that produce higher-quality images with better compression ratios than standard techniques provide. This work was done by Dr. Frank Moore’s group at the University of Alaska. The article was written by Mr. Pat Marshall, […]