Archive for February, 2007
Spooz names GAmist head of financial engineering
Publicly traded financial firm Spooz named Jamé Groves director of financial engineering (here). Groves has used genetic algorithms in financial applications before:
He also designed proprietary black-box systems for high frequency trading applications to exploit market inefficiencies using multi-population genetic algorithms.
More information is available on Spooz and its software line here .
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Posted by admin on February 10th, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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New journals in field
From Epistasis Blog (here) I learned about the new open access journal, Journal of Artififical Evolution and Applications, and from Larry Bull I learned about the new journal Evolutionary Learning. JAEA is open for business now and EI start publishing January 2008. Does the field genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation need new journals? Ready or […]
Posted by admin on February 8th, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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Junk mail and GAs
The Boston Globe has a nice article about Genalytics here.
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Posted by admin on February 6th, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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Dorkbot and GAs
Some discussion of genetic algorithm art and music at the Vancouver chapter of dorkbot here. Information about dorkbot (people doing weird things with electricity) here.
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Posted by admin on February 6th, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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Weird computing in Bristol dovetails GECCO
Immediately following GECCO-2007, the 2007 UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING conference will be held in Bristol. The conference is sponsored by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. According to the organizers the unconventional computing
is the quest for groundbreaking new algorithms and physical implementations of novel and ultimately — compared to classical approaches — more powerful computing paradigms and […]
Posted by admin on February 5th, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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See share2me, the video
Over at TEE (here).
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Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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4th Humie awards make ready for London
Last night, John Koza announced the 4th Human-Competitive Results submission deadline of 28 May 2007:
Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being increasingly applied to difficult real-world problems - often yielding results that are not merely interesting, but competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans. At the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference […]
Posted by admin on February 1st, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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GECCO-2007 sets submissions record
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007 ) to be held in London, July 7-11, 2007 (Saturday to Wednesday) is on the way to setting a submissions record. As or 4 am (CST) 574 papers had been submitted. This beats the 2005 record of 550 by 4.4%.
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Posted by admin on February 1st, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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