Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

I am chief scientist for a web personalization, introduction, and recommendation firm called Nextumi (see earlier post here). The company has hired a new CEO (see here).
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Genetic algorithms have been written in almost every imaginable language, but this blog post at robsyvertsen.org describes a simple GA written in Labview, a graphical programming language mainly used for real-time instrumentation control and data collection. The code is downloadable here for those interested.
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I just saw on Slashdot that Forbes is running an article on Stanford delivering for free lectures on iTunes. Interesting move now that podcasting is changing the way that people interact with media contents.
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There’s a post over at citym.org (here) that uses genetic algorithms to evolve a pointilist rendering of a photograph
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I review Senge’s new book Presence over at TEE here.
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I just learned that Martin Pelikan has received an NSF Career award for his work on hBOA. The NSF Career program is described here. Martin received his PhD in the lab in 2002 and is author of the book Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm: Toward a New Generation of Evolutionary Algorithms. Join me in congratulating Martin […]

Apartment theory is and interesting blog about interior design. No, no GAs there yet, but I just ran into and interesting quote from Tomas Edison: There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something. That got me thinking again about structure and its enforcement in creative problem solving. From the work done in […]

The submissions deadline for the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference to be held July 8-12, 2006 (Sat-Wed) in Seattle, WA has been extended to February 1. For further information, consult the GECCO website here.
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Automating invention has a post (here) on quantum computers and its implications for automated invention using GP.
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