Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The John Templeton foundation and the MIT computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory are organizing an event Creativity: the mind, machines, and mathematics
in celebration of 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper "On
Computable Numbers". The event features a public debate between  David Gelernter and Ray Kurzweil

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The DISCUS project (Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Settings) has a new site. Besides moving it to Wordpress, we have been working to engineer a site that will allow us to demonstrate some of the human-centered analytic technologies the DISCUS project has created. For each post, now you can analyze it with a […]

I wrote a post on metadata and Firefox extensions here. It provides pointers to sites with more information on how to query browser information using Java Script and RDF while writing those extensions.
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uses Google scholar to count the number of papers a researcher has that are cited by h or papers.  The listing for h ~ 40 is shown here. 
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Philosophy Now reports the use of genetic algorithms to write poetry (here). The site was originally started, like most of mankind's accomplishments, to "impress a girl."  The site (here) uses interactive evaluations by users to determine good from bad poetry.  Actually, we reported on this site back on 2 June 2005 (here), but a bit […]

It's after Thanksgiving.  Do you know where your GECCO is?  Have you written your papers for GECCO2007?  Are you ready for the first Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference outside of North America?  Are you ready for a keynote by Richard Dawkins?  I'm pumped.  See you 7-11 July 2007 (Saturday to Wednesday) at University College London.
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Sigevolution has a nice series of pictures of the Human Competitive Results award winners from GECCO 2006 (here). Pier Luca Lanzi is doing an absolutely smashing job editing this magazine.  It's got to be one of the most professional mags of any of the ACM sigs.
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AJ Blog has a post (here) about The Next 50 Years, a book written by a panel of notables about science in the first half of the 21st century.  My own view is that science is less important to the next 50 years than engineering and technology.  Despite efforts to confuse and conflate the two, engineering […]

Tyler Streeter has some interesting videos from a project he did with humanoid simulations using genetic algorithms and neural networks 3 years ago over at the Verve Project (see here). 
The interesting thing here to me is how increasingly commonplace it is for people to use genetic algorithms in creative and surprising ways.  Back when I published Genetic […]

The Rotter-Covey square helps understand decisions among matters that are internally or externally important (important or urgent in Stephen Covey's terms).  See the full blogpost over at TEE (here).
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