Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

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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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: […]

Stewart Wilson put online on his web site a two pages introduction to learning classifier systems that is available here.
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The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available also from the ACM Digital Library
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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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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 […]

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 […]

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.
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Abstract submission deadline for the 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering has been extended. See the original post here.
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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. […]