Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Physics-envy passes along a link to Kandid, an interactive genetic algorithm that evolves art in response to user evaluations. Go here to download.
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This entry is merely to say hello to those new GE 531 students (Genetic Algorithms) who are taking the course with me in class and online.
The first lecture is in the can, and the course is up an running. Still time to register for those interested.
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Michael O’Neill writes to help plug next year’s EuroGP and Evo* Conferences and Workshops:
We are drumming up some interest for EuroGP 2007 at the moment, and of course the two other associated conferences (EvoCOP and EvoBIO) and EvoWorkshops. It would be great if perhaps you might consider highlighting the events on your groups Blog?
I’m happy […]

See my comments on the current problems in hiring and retaining faculty at the IITs in India here.
My original reply was a little longer:
Indeed, the faculty manpower shortage in India would be harmful to international collaborations. Collaboration takes time, both in visits broad and in working at a distance. Increased teaching loads would […]

My genetic algorithms class, GE 531, is available for students on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (see here) and for students off campus who would like to take it on line (see here).
This semester, I will record the online lectures again for the first time since 2000, and the new lectures […]

It seems that GA rule learning is being used (somehow) in saving the Mexican Trout. Who knew?
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In COLT mailing list, I’ve just read about the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge. From the original post:

The Hutter Prize challenges researchers to demonstrate their programs are intelligent by finding simpler ways of representing human knowledge within computer programs. The researcher that can produce the smallest program that outputs a selected […]