Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

I’m sitting listening to Dispankar Dasgupta talk about artificial immune systems at Xavier Llora’s NIGEL workshop. This morning the talks are

• Stewart W. Wilson: “Can We Do Captchas?”
• David E. Goldberg: “Searle, Intentionality, and the Future of Classifier Systems”
• Dipankar Dasgupta: “Artificial Immune Systems in Anomaly Detection”
• Lashon Booker: “A Retrospective Look at Classifier System Research”

Stewart challenged us to go beyond “place/value functions” and work on problems that were more open ended. I challenged the field to work on creating “intentional machines” using some of Searle’s ideas contained in Mind, Language & Society. Dipankar presented an overview of his work on artificial immune systems. Lashon is up next.