Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday).  Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.
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Shige Tsutsui sends along this photo of IlliGAL angler Martin Pelikan at work off the coast of Japan.  Apparently this is the one that did not get away.

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Module 2, "What is Creativity?" from my newest course, Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries, is up at TEE here. 
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is the title of a presentation that Kumara Sastry and I are giving in about half an hour at NCSA.  See the ppt slides over at TEE (here).
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Anchiva Systems launches Anchiva OS2.0 malware protection software.  According to the press release (here):
In addition to using the latest techniques to capture the most recent malware on the Internet, Anchiva's researchers apply advanced heuristics and genetic algorithm technology to contain the deadliest categories of Internet traffic. 
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There is a nice article about our own Kumara Sastry up on the Engineering News Bureau website (here).  Kumara should be finishing up his dissertation soon, and his hard work and dedication will be sorely missed.
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at YouTube or over at TEE (here).
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using genetic programming (here).
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Kumara and I will present the previously reported billion variable GA results (link) at NCSA's Private Sector Program next Tuesday (see here).
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over at TEE (here).
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