Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

I've neglected The Entrepreneurial Engineer for some time, but I busted a move and posted a bunch of new stuff here.
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I just published a one-page article in the March 2007 issue of PE magazine on the Epictetus square.  A pdf file of the article is available here.
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KDD cup is a datamining competition. This year's KDD Cup will be related to (but different from) the current Netflix Prize competition. Here is a brief description from the KDD cup page:

This year's tasks employ the Netflix Prize training data set. This data set consists of more than 100 million ratings from over 480 thousand […]

Antenna design has been a hotbed of genetic algorithms.  Here's yet another paper (link).
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The first four lectures in the series are available in video format here .
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According to one listing the big genetic algorithms conference GECCO is among the top AI conferences held anywhere in terms of impact.  Here are the AI listings:

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
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numbers in brackets correspond to the EIC value […]

LSE economics student Thomas at Brownian Motion has been bitten by the genetic algorithm bug.  It is a bit of a specialized disease, but it is known to take control of the minds of those so inflicted.  Read his eloquent blog entry (here) because the symptoms are classic.
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I'm not sure how P3T3RK3Y5 is using GAs to make music playlists, but here's the post.
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My Google personalized homepage is my favorite interface to access RSS feeds. This weekend I finally succeeded in adding IlliGAL blog to my Google homepage.
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The Daily Yomiuri: Grand challenges free researchers to explore what can be imagined.
These are the questions that the Journeys in Nonclassical Computation project is asking as it looks to biology and physics to help shed light on new ways to compute. Some of the early directions include genetic algorithms and artificial neural […]