Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Audio of the GECCO 2007 keynote discussion with Richard Dawkins, Lewis Wolpert, and Steven Jones, moderated by Peter J Bentley is now online as an mp3, along with some photos from the audience:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.html
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The DISCUS team has join forces with ALG and DITA at NCSA to enter the 2007 VAST contest. You can find a podcast of the entry to the contest here, and a description of the VAST contest below.
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Module 5, The Construction of Engineering Reality, is over at TEE here.
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but it sounds like a win for genetic algorithms (here).
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My presentation at the 2007 Workshop on Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models organized by Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry is available below.

A number of other labbies and lab affiliates were represented in this workshop (see here).
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Two entries by IlliGAL lab members and affiliates won bronze “humies” award at the human-competitive results competition at GECCO-2007.

One of the entries, titled “Towards Better than Human Capability in Diagnosing Prostate Cancer Using Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging“, was led by IlliGAL lab member Xavier Llorà. Other team members included Rohith Reddy, Brian Matesic, and Rohit […]

Here are my ppt slides from the panel discussion on Philosophy of Technology and/or Philosophy of Engineering at the Society of Technology meeting (here).

Other speakers included Carl Mitcham, Taft Broome, and Billy Koen.
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The paper “Towards routine billion-bit optimization via a parallel estimation of distribution algorithm” co-authored by Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg, and Xavier Llorà won the best paper award in estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) track at GECCO-2007. IlliGAL technical report of the work can be accessed here, a related short paper in complexity is available […]

is giving a killer talk at the Society for Philosophy & Technology meeting (here) connecting engineering notions of function with philosophy of engineering notions of function called Fiat Functions in Engineering.   Vermaas’s website at TUDelft is here.
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I’m in a session at the Society for Philosophy & Technology on Post Humanism, World-Making and Normativity.  Strange fare for a fluid mechanician turned genetic algorithmist, but why not?
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