Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Via Slashdot I found the announcement that UC Berkeley is uploading full lectures to YouTube.
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Kumara leaving Urbana

Today at 8am, Kumara headed for Portland where Intel is waiting for him. Today at 8am, Urbana is a bit empty.
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The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at
http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/
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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. […]

After modifying the web site look a few months ago, we’ve moved the Illinois Genetic Algorithm Laboratory website to the latest version of WordPress to simplify user management, facilitate updates, and improve security.   Over the course of the next few weeks we will be tweaking the site to get it up to full speed, but […]

IlliGAL postdoc Noriko Imafuji Yasui (and her coauthors Llora, Goldberg, Washida & Tamura) took the best paper award at the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007) in Portugal last week.  The paper Delineating Topic and Discussant Transitions in Online Collaborative Environments is available in pdf format here. 
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I've posted the ppt from module 4, Tech Visionaries & Models, of my course Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries over at TEE here.  Links to modules 1, 2 & 3 are posted below the slideshare viewer.
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I was browing around and came across my son Max's last penguin comic and thought I'd post it here since pictures get more hits and visitors than words.

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Apparently, GAs were invented at the Santa Fe Institute, according to a blog post by Anders Bylund (here) about Comac McCarthy on Oprah:

Traditional economics mixed with chaos theory and particle physics to produce Brian Arthur's economic law of increasing returns. Evolutionary theory plus computer science spawned the discipline of evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms at the […]

over at TEE.
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