Archive for April, 2008
Bury the cold war curriculum
NOW!! Over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 30th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Evolving Living Creatures for the Beach
Martin Pelikan has posted a very interesting TED talk by Theo Jansen on his efforts to create autonomous wind-powered machines. You can find more (including the TED videos) in his Medal blog post.
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Posted by Xavier Llorà on April 20th, 2008 under illigal blog
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SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 3 is out!
The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:
http://www.sigevolution.org
The issue features:
GA @ The World Solar Challenge by Vincent de Geus & the Nuon Solar Team
Buildable Evolution by Pablo José Funes
What Is a Classifier System? Stewart W. Wilson
Dissertation Corner
New Issues of Journals
Calls and Calendar
The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on April 9th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Linkage in Evolutionary Computation @ CEC2009
There will be a special session on linkage learning in evolutionary computation during CEC2009, more information is available here.
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on April 8th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Movie contracts simplified using GAs
Researchers at Syracuse University have used genetic algorithms and game theory to show that simpler movie contracts are superior to more complex arrangements. See the article at Newsblaze here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 6th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Antarctic researcher claims billion variable precedence
The Genetic Argonaut has a piece on an Antarctic researcher who claims precedence on solving billion variable problems over IlliGAL. Professor Pangloss Van Thunder-ten-Tronckh claims precedent on many other innovations in genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation as well. Read the full story here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 1st, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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