Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Collected via google news:

• 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 networks, but more radical ideas gleaned from quantum mechanics and social networks will also likelyplay a role.

• ZDNetIndia: India poised for breakthrough in nanotechnology: Experts. See Dave Goldberg's blog post here.

Kalyanmoy Deb, a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) spoke about 'Evolutionary Computation for Practical Optimization''. Deb has won several national and international awards including the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2005. He gave a presentation on the latest trends in the field of evolutionary algorithms.

• The Hindu: Take computing back to nature.

Evolutionary (also called natural) computation tries to mimic these elegant natural processes to solve real-world problems… ranging from traffic congestion to credit card fraud detection. So successful has this trend proved, that entire teams of problem solvers are at work today, harnessing these nature-inspired computational tools to deliver a dizzying array of practical solutions.