Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The blog Adaptation in Evolutionary Systems  has a post on the release of a vectorized GA written in Matlab here.  I love the tag line for this blog, "A Quest for an Accurate Description of the Means by Which Selecto- Recombinative Genetic Systems Perform Adaptation." Well, I sorta maybe thought that The Design of Innovation […]

Learning classifier system practitioner Dr. John Holmes, Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania, was named a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (see here).
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Imagine Optic, a French optics company,has announced the spring launch of GENAO, genetic algorithm based optics design software:
The company is equally preparing to launch a revolutionary new product called GENAO this spring. GENAO is an iterative adaptive optics software tool that uses genetic algorithms to control wavefront correction technologies in situations where a wavefront sensor […]

I ran into a post at Mark Tarver's blog—a former tenured professor at School of Computer Studies at Leeds—about the modern academia establishment. You may or may not agree with him. Some of his opinions may or may not be flawed or biased. But, the post "Why I am Not a Professor OR […]

I'm editing a book called Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms together with Claudio Lima and Zbigniew Michalewicz. It is part of the Springer Series in Computational Intelligence. Below is a list of the book chapters and their authors.

Parameter Setting in EAs: a 30 Year Perspective
Ken De Jong
Parameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms
Agoston Eiben, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Marc […]

After leaving NuTech Solutions, I knew that Zbigniew Michalewicz landed on his feet at the University of Adelaide in Australia (see here), but I hadn't been paying attention to the founding of his  company SolveIt Software.  Looks like NuTech 2.0, basically a consulting play.  I always thought it was cool that NuTech was able to […]

Our own Kumara Sastry is a finalist for the $30k Lemelson-Illinois prize, an extension of the Lemelson-MIT prize.  The prize is awarded each year to the most inventive student at the U of I.  A press release is available here. 
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What was that sound I just heard? A huge sigh of relief all over the world of genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation because of the GECCO submissions extension?
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The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference submission deadline has been extended from Wednesday, January 17 to WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31, 22:00 Pacific Standard Time. The site is not updated yet, but here you have a transcription of John Koza's email
Hello All:

The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference submission deadline has been extended from Wednesday, January […]

The book Advances at the frontier of Learning Classifier Systems collecting three years of cutting-edge research on learning classifier systems has entered its final publishing stages. Springer has all the materials and they are working on the final editing. The book is going to be published on the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as […]