Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

IlliGALer Martin Butz, (UIUC, CS, Phd, 2004) was recently awarded a prestigious Emma Noether Award by DFG (Germany’s NSF).    This award is something like the NSF CAREER award in that it lets young German researchers establish serious research groups early in their careers.  General information about the award is here. All of this year’s awards […]

The National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have released what people has started calling “YouTube for scientists”, SciVee. You can upload your research papers, accompanied by a video where they describe the work in the form of a short lecture, accompanied by a presentation.
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The video of the GECCO 2007 keynote event is now available here:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.html
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Abstract submission deadline for the 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering has been extended. See the original post here.
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The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering has posted its final call for papers here.  The event is shaping up to be a turning point in engineering thought.
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The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at
http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/
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Philipp Lenssen at blogscoped wonders if Google Ads could be using genetic algorithms to allow the software to figure out what Ads to show to users.

I wonder, with that massive amount of ads + searches Google has, if there’s some merit in allowing the software to figure it out for itself… evolutionary algorithms, self-learning style. […]

In addition to GECCO photos mentioned in an earlier IlliGAL blog post, more photos of GECCO 2007 can be found here.
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Here is the New Scientist article about GECCO 2007 in general, and human competitive results in particular. See related blog posts about IlliGAL members/affiliates winning two bronze Humies.
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