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2006 02 23

Cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering

The renewed mission of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering. If you want to learn more about it, a must-read document is the NCSA 2010: The future of NCSA, which gives a general overview of NCSA strategy for the years to come. Another interesting essay by NCSA’s director […]

2006 02 23

Change the world

Read my short review of Quinn’s book Change the World over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer here. (Note to Nosophorus: yes, change can be dangerous to the status quo.)
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2006 02 22

Computers smarter than you? Not

Professor Wunsch at University of Missouri at Rolla has an essay here entitled What’s Not Next in AI. The following paragraph captures the tone of the article:
So, you can expect to see future computers do things that only humans did before. You can expect them to cause huge disruptions and make many jobs obsolete. […]

2006 02 20

LCSWeb creates a LCS and GBML paper database

Jan Drugowitsch in agreement with Tim Kovacs have team up to provide a LCS and other GBML paper database. You can access it here. You can also check the LCS and other GBML for more related information and events.
Related PostsThe new LCS and other GBML blog is in beta stageNew books section on the LCS […]

2006 02 14

New books section on the LCS and GBML web site

The LCS and GBML site has a new section about book. It can be found here. The section collects LCS and GBML related books. If you found that relevant LCS and GBML books are missing, please post a comment to the editors of the site and they will take care of it.
Related PostsLCSWeb creates […]

2006 02 13

Selling

Sometimes being a researcher means having to sell your ideas. See the post here.
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2006 02 12

Ninth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2006)

Ninth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems to be held as part of the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006) at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington, USA. IWLCS is the only event to bring together most of the core researchers in classifier systems. A free introductory tutorial on LCS will be […]

2006 02 11

An anniversary missed

I just realized that this blog passed its one year birthday on 24 January. Look here for the very first post on 24 January 2005.
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2006 02 07

Game AI and genetics

Just bumped into this website about game AI and genetics. The website contains several interesting links about GA and GP applications on computer gaming. You can check it out here.
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2006 02 07

AV festival features GAs

AV Festival 06 is a
bi-annual international festival of digitalart, moving image, music and new media which takes place in the NorthEast of England. The second AV festival will take placeacross three cities of NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbroughfrom 2 - 12 March 2006.
Under the rubric Life Like, the festival will explore the interplay between technological and biological […]