Archive for February, 2009
Evolution of Mona Lisa
Via a post by David Oranchak, I just run into a Roger Alsing exercise to evolve paintings using polygons. I found pretty surprising the quality of the evolved painting around the eyes. The video below presents the evolution of the Mona Lisa’s painting as it moves along. The original post also provides other snapshots.
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Posted by Xavier Llorà on February 19th, 2009 under Genetic programming
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Simulated Car Racing @ GECCO-2009
The Simulated Car Racing competition of GECCO-2009 officially has started with the publication of the competition rules and regulations for the first contest, titled Learning to Drive, and the availability of the competition software.
There is a nice leaflet here
Further information are available at the competition webpage:
http://cig.dei.polimi.it/?page_id=79
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on February 16th, 2009 under GECCO
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GECCO is 11th most impactful conference
Genetic & Evolutionary Computation Conference is number 11 most impactful conference in CS http://tinyurl.com/4r7t2v via @ShareThis (hat tip Lee Spector).
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 13th, 2009 under GECCO, illigal blog, Genetic algorithms
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Presentation “Not your grandmother’s GA” on Slideshare
My talk at HollandFest09 is here or in the viewer below.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 12th, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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The main event in Singapore: John Holland takes the stage
Right now he’s talking about recombination. I’m twittering about this on my twitter account deg511.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 12th, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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Steph Forrest talking about GAs fixing bugs
Blogging live from HollandFest in Singapore, Steph Forrest, chair of computer science at University of New Mexico, is giving a talk about GAs (actually a simplified version of GA) repairing software bugs. Giving an example from a famous Zune freeze bug.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 11th, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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More Darwin news
Discover Magazine released an article We All Live in Darwin’s World in which a certain GA lab director was quoted as saying
“We’re getting Darwin’s ideas to run faster and jump higher,” says David E. Goldberg, director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory in Urbana-Champaign.
Happy Darwin day.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 11th, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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Happy Darwin day
It’s still 7 pm on 11 February in Champaign, but it’s 9am on 12 February here in Singapore, so I can wish everyone a happy Darwin day. It’s doubly special as I’m writing from Nanyang Technological University, at the opening session of an Interdisciplinary Conference, Adaptation, Order, and Emergence: A Tribute to John Holland. Earlier […]
Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 11th, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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Spector blogs for GPEM
Lee Spector has started an editor’s blog for Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines here. We welcome GPEM to the GEC blogosphere. The blog is linked to the IlliGAL web page, and we wish this maiden crossing a bon voyage.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 3rd, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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Genetic algorithm discovers Boron nearly as hard as diamond
The New York Times has an interesting article in which scientists have used GAs to discover a form of Boron nearly as hard as diamond:
For that, they turned to Dr. Oganov, who employed a computational technique that encodes parameters of the crystal structure in a string of data. Starting with a number of trial crystal […]
Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 2nd, 2009 under Genetic algorithms
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