Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

I just want to drop a quick note. We finally re-vamped the LCS page and turned it into a blog :). We are planning to use it initially to mainly post the news about the activities of the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems. Maybe later we add some other LCS and GBML related […]

Yesterday it was announced that Billings (the largest city of Montana with the population of about 100k) chose MWH Soft InfoWater and Info SWMM ArcGIS-centric (ESRI, Redlands, CA) technology as the geospatial infrastructure modeling and management solution for its water distribution and sewer collection systems. Billings operates and maintains over 400 miles of water lines, […]

Waltham, Massachusetts company Affinnova has named Waleed Al-Atraqchi as chief executive officer (see full press release here).
Waleed is a proven leader, one with the optimal combination of sales and marketing management and entrepreneurial expertise needed at this stage of Affinnova’s growth,” said David Andonian. “His track record of elevating companies affords him keen insights into […]

Insolublog has an interesting critique of the modern university here. His criticism resonates with my blogging about seeking a college for my son Max. The basic point is to somehow inject mentorship back into the college or university experience:
Not everyone is a natural teacher, but there are many with natural gifts for creative building and […]

Over the last few months I’ve mixed my thoughts about engineering and professional development into the mix of normal genetic algorithm stuff here at IlliGAL Blogging. Starting today, I’ll blog about such matters at the new blog The Entrepreneurial Engineer.
On Wednesday, I submitted the final manuscript for TEE the book to […]

The post “Competent GAs revisited” (see here) has gotten a string of 8 (!) comments that I would like to comment on. The debate is over whether genetic and evolutionary computation will continue to be an artform, where the practitioner chooses the representation, “appropriate” crossover, mutation, and other operators, or whether competent GAs […]

Geekgorgeous has a calendar of geek models. My favorite is Lilac:
Lilac, who started working as a programmer at age 16, is now a senior software engineer with an acronym-rich skill-set that includes Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, JMS, PHP, ASP, ADO, SQL, XML, UML, J2ME, MIDP and more. As an independent consultant, Lilac has worked on […]

I’m giving a workshop (announcement here) tomorrow morning (Friday) in Harrisburg called The Joy of Engineering in an Age of Opportunity. It ties into the themes in my forthcoming book The Entrepreneurial Engineer (here) and my shortcourse of the same name (see here).
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MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, announced the release of InfoSWMM Calibrator today. As a part of their system, a genetic algorithm is used:

This revolutionary new calibration platform for urban drainage system models is the first ArcGIS-centric (ESRI, Redlands, CA) optimization software in the world to unleash the […]

This is not a typical blog entry. I felt like telling you before you continue reading. Last Saturday I was sitting in one of the dance performances of this season at Krannert center. I was amazed by the hard work done by Philip Johnston’s students—soul lifting is not quite the word, but it is the […]