Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Billy Koen's recent talk at the University of Illinois, An Engineer's Quest for Universal Method, is available at the ETSI/ETC site in synched powerpoint, plain video, or ppt in pdf format (here).
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Nextumi is causing a bit of a buzz over at DEMO 07, and I'm blogging about some of it over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer . 
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Centauri Dreams describes a project at Tufts to develop biomimetic robots (here).  Apparently genetic algorithms play a role 
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At Tapuy Moments here .
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See post over at TinyTechIP here.
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Nextumi's product share2me leads GigaOm's coverage of DEMO 07 (here). A portion of the transcript reads: 

Personal publishing across media: Dublin, Ohio-based Nextumi will be there and one of the cofounders says the company will launch “share2me, a ubiquitous sharing product to permit crossplatform, multimedia sharing.” Redwood City, CA-based Vuvox says it enables its users to […]

During my day job, I'm a mild-mannered reporter for IlliGAL Blogging (oh yes, and a professor for the UIUC), but at night, I'm a mad chief scientist for a web startup called Nextumi.  The Entrepreneurial Engineer reports Nextumi's launch of its first product (called share2me) at DEMO 07 (see here).
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Nick Pankey passed along an article in the Chicago Sun-Times about a sports prediction company called Accuscore that uses some kind of evolutionary scheme.  It is unclear from the article (here) whether the procedure is a genetic algorithm, but the developer, Stephen Oh, went to Michigan (in anthropology) and there is a Stephen Oh […]

See the blog post at The Entrepreneurial Engineer (here) regarding, positive psychology and the master of happy?
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Oranchak.com has a post about a project done in my genetic algorithms course this fall (here ) in which Flickr interestingness is used to generate a fitness function, which in turn is used to generate interesting images. I recommend a look see; this is one of the cooler projects to be done in my […]