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 are listed here (mainly in German).  Martin’s group will study

Sich selbst entwickelndes, adaptives Verhalten in künstlichen kognitiven Lernsystemen basierend auf selbstorganisierenden, sensomotorischen Körperwelle.

The google translation of this is

Itself developing, adaptive behavior in artificial cognitive training systems based on organizing, sensomotorischen body waves.

More detail is available here.