Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Omnithing has a nice post on biothing, a ” transdisciplinary laboratory which research focuses on generative potential of physical and artificial computational systems for design.” Read more about biothing here.
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Some public relations tips on press releases in the web world can be found over at TEE (here).
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The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)-2007) will be held in London, England, 14-18 July 2007 at University College of London. Keep an eye on the conference web site here for details as they become available.
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Ann Steffora Mutschlerof EDN reports (here) that Solido Design Automation received a$2.5 million round of funding from noted genetic-programming expert John Koza, complexity guru Doyne Farmer, and others. The article does not disclose the nature of the tools used in Solido’s systems, but company CTO Trent McConaghy has worked with genetic programming and multiobjective […]

I’ve been remiss by not linking to sites that link to us. Codeprof (Try {Teach} Catch {Mistakes}) links to IlliGAL Blogging and his latest post wonders why info text books are so bad (here).
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Today’s schedule at PPSN included several tutorial talks. I had the opportunity to attend to Darrell Whitley’s tutorial, who gave a very good talk on practical guidelines for using evolutionary algorithms. Next, I went to the tutorial talk about the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES), given by Nikolaus Hansen. I found the talk particularly […]

Over the past months, I have departed from the usual genetic algorithms theme of this blog to report on my elder son’s search for a college (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, and here). The long march of the penguin through childhood is over (see here to see a sample of […]

Although I arrived late in the morning at Reykjavik I was able to attend the afternoon session of the Workshop on Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms, organized by Luis Paquete, Marco Chiarandini, and Dario Basso.
The talks raised interesting questions about the empirical comparison of metaheuristics, given the increasing number of new (and not […]

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My new book is out and available. See here for more information.
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