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2007 10 28

Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering abstracts available

WPE-2007 begins tomorrow in Delft, The Netherlands.  The program and abstracts are available here.
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2007 10 26

Richard Hamming’s “You and Your Research”.

A friend of mine pointed me to an interesting talk given by Richard Hamming at Bellcore on 7 March 1986 about research management.
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2007 10 14

Horn’s students beat GECCO odds

There’s a nice article in the Mining Journal (here) about Jeff Horn’s students Brian Krent and Correy Kowall getting accepted to GECCO-2007 and presenting their paper at the conference
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2007 10 12

MTV module available

Module 6, 2 techniques from Athens, of the course Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries, is available in a ppt viewer over at TEE (here).
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2007 10 12

Made to Stick reviewed at TEE

Read a penetrating review of the book, Made to Stick, over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer (here) and go buy and read the book.
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2007 10 12

Butz announces COBOSLAB website

IlliGAL alum Martin Butz announces his new COBOSLAB website. COBOSLAB stands for Cognitive Bodyspaces: Learning and Behavior.
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2007 10 11

Genetic algorithms for our Spanish-speaking friends

here.
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2007 10 10

DSMGA patent issues

A US patent has been granted for the invention Methods and Program Products for Optimizing Problem Clustering. The inventors, Tian-Li Yu, David E. Goldberg, and Ali Yassine worked together in the Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the time the patent was filed.   Dr. Yu is […]

2007 10 09

Scheduling via GA

Interesting post over at ALN magazine here.
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2007 10 08

Creativity imperative lecture online

My recent lecture at the National University of Singapore, The Creativity Imperative and the Technology Professional of the Future, is on line and can be viewed here.  The powerpoints are viewable on slideshare here.
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