Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

IlliGAL Blogging readers will have noticed an increase in comment spam on the site, whereby irrelevant comments are posted by bots or other malicious entities. To fight this scourge, IB has taken two steps. First, the blog will no longer accept anonymous posts. All commentators will be required to have a Blogger account, and if you don’t have one, they are easy enough to obtain. Second, commentators will need to authenticate their humanity by retyping a word shown on the screen in a hard-to-machine-read font. IB hopes that these two steps will reduce comment spam sufficiently for us to continue to permit comments on the site.