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2007 02 10

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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2007 02 08

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 […]

2007 02 06

Junk mail and GAs

The Boston Globe has a nice article about Genalytics here.
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2007 02 06

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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2007 02 05

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 […]

2007 02 02

See share2me, the video

Over at TEE (here).
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2007 02 01

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 […]

2007 02 01

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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