Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

There is a nice article/interview with longtime GA practitioner Dave Davis at Supply and Demand Chain Executive here.
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Yesterday I was having dinner with a friend. He mentioned that he had become addicted to the lectures posted on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) web site. I found this interesting description of TED on their site:
TED is all about connections. The connections of ideas and the connections of people. It is based on the […]

Chris Donnan comments (here) on an article by Martin Pelikan and me in which we discuss the relation between GAs and innovation.  My first writing about this connection goes back to my PhD dissertation in 1983 (here ), and the full-length version of this argument is contained in my 2002 book The Design of Innovation […]

Programmers get fairly attached to their scripting language of choice and in 22 years of running a class on genetic algorithms I've seen GA code in every imaginable language.  Teodor Zlatanov of IBM has a nice article on writing a simple GA in PERL here .
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A keyword driven advertisement led me to Gil Sysweda and his most recent company, Machine Insight , and their need for a few good machine learnists (here).

We are currently looking for people with a strong background in statistical AI and machine learning, with the desire to apply these technologies to real-world problems. Techniques of interest […]

Tim Kovacs is the chair of LCS and other GBML track for GECCO 2007. The deadline is approaching (January 17) You can find more information about the track here.
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Helen Dam, Kamran Shafi, and Hussein Hussein A. Abbass are organizing a special session on GBML in CEC 2007. More information can be found here.
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Clarient has licensed Natural Selection Inc. evolutionary computation software for cancer diagnostic development (see here).
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A press release tells the story here:

Genalytics, a leading provider of On-Demand Targeted data solutions, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to the company for its core software technology, which enables automated predictive analytics through the application of genetic algorithms. The Genalytics On-Demand Targeting solution utilizes this […]

Friend of IlliGAL, David Leinweber, has taken a new position with Monitor110.  Leinweber headed First Quadrant's famed effort at using genetic algorithms to manage a large investment fund, and it looks as though he is up to more of the same (read here) although his work with Codexa appears closely related to the current business […]