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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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A course for GA fans
All you genetic algorithmists who need a little touch up on your biological background, have I got the course for you, and it’s on sale right now. Stephen Nowicki’s, Biology: […]
Posted by David E. Goldberg on March 2nd, 2008 under illigal blog, Genetic algorithms
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Stewart Wilson’s two pages introduction to Learning Classifier Systems!
Stewart Wilson put online on his web site a two pages introduction to learning classifier systems that is available here.
Related PostsStewart Wilson: Mover and shaker of LCSsLearning classifier systems for bioinformatics @ IWLCS 2006International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on January 16th, 2008 under illigal blog, Genetic algorithms
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SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 2 in the ACM Digital Library
The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available also from the ACM Digital Library
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on January 8th, 2008 under illigal blog, Genetic algorithms
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Jaume’s lecturing position
Illigal former member Jaume Bacardit obtained a lecturing position opened jointly between the schools of Biosciences & Computer Science at the University of Nottingham.
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on November 9th, 2007 under illigal blog
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Alwyn Barry changing jobs
This is an excerpt from Alwyn Barry’s web page (Thanks Pier Luca for pointing it out).
Most people who know me will be aware that I am changing job shortly. I will be leaving the University of Bath from 30th September 2007, and will no longer be an academic. I am moving to Street in […]
Posted by Xavier Llorà on September 19th, 2007 under illigal blog
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Live from the Engineer of the Future
I am sitting at the workshop on the Engineer of the Future hosted at NCSA. The workshop is part of the ETSI lecture series organized by Michael Loui and David E. Goldberg. The talks so far are very interesting. Hard to highlight all the relevant points, but I would like to mention the experience Sherra […]
Posted by Xavier Llorà on September 5th, 2007 under illigal blog
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YouTube for science = SciVee
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.
Related PostsUC Berkeley full lectures […]
Posted by Xavier Llorà on August 22nd, 2007 under illigal blog
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WPE abstract submission deadline extended
Abstract submission deadline for the 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering has been extended. See the original post here.
Related PostsGECCO 2007 deadline extendedGECCO-2006 submissions deadline extended to Feb 1GECCO 2008 deadline extended to January 30th
Posted by Kumara Sastry on August 17th, 2007 under illigal blog
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Google Ads and genetic algorithms
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. […]
Posted by Kumara Sastry on August 2nd, 2007 under illigal blog, Illigal-blogging, Genetic algorithms
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