Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

According to Notes on Minds, a company called Novamente uses a Bayesian optimization algorithm (see related post here) as part of its larger artificial intelligence architecture:
The basic idea is to dig for patterns using a bayesian optimization algorithm (a heuristically improved genetic algorithm). Patterns are cloned, mutated, and tested. Good patterns are kept and associated […]

The Entrepreneurial Engineer has a post on making lists of values, missions, and goals for the new year here.
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See press release here.
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A soft-computing center, The Centre for Soft Computing Research, has been started at the India Statistical Institute, Kolkata:
Basic research will be undertaken in areas such as pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, data mining, hybrid techniques, video image processing, etc.

The center grows out of very early work in fuzzy systems and […]

Genetic algorithms are used to assess consumer credit worthiness in this talk.
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The submissions deadline for the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006) is January 18, 2006. Submission information is posted here. GECCO is sponsored by ACM’s newest special interest group, SIGEVO, the special interest group for genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO 2006 will be held July 8-12, 2006 (Saturday-Wednesday) in Seattle, Washington. […]

Blogger kenichihorie writes a short post on DISCUS in Japanese here. The post talks about Kazu Inaba’s visit at IlliGAL to work on DISCUS.
A Japanese version of DISCUS has been prepared and we hope to use it with in pilot tests with Japanese consumers shortly.
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TEE has a post with a list of happiness books (here).
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I apologize for no blogging over the holidays. Took mother penguin and the two child penguins to Orlando for four nights to get some sun and fresh air. Went to SeaWorld, sat by the pool, and walked on the ocean. Last trip to Orlando was in 1999. I wonder what Walt […]