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2009 06 10

Coevolution of Pattern Generators and Recognizers

A new technical report was posted in the Illigal technical reports page (here). For a full list of Illigal reports click here.
Related PostsTwo pseudo-random number generators for use in GECCo-evolutionary wiki up and runningInheritance pattern of death

2009 03 10

Who are your most important co-authors? And what the streams?

DBLPVis is a service provided by the University of Trier, based on the data gathered in the DBLP project, which allows you to search large amount of data for connections between conferences, persons and words. It allows you to search for the most important co-authors and the most significant streams.
The service is available at http://dblpvis.uni-trier.de/
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2008 05 19

Google analytics and the zen of iGAs

I just wrote a few thoughts about how Google Analytics is pushing for an evolutionary view of website design and optimization here.
Related PostsGrowth in market for GAsDISCUS teams up with NCSA to enter the 2007 VAST contestIlliGAL Blogging on your google webpage

2007 10 03

UC Berkeley full lectures on YouTube

Via Slashdot I found the announcement that UC Berkeley is uploading full lectures to YouTube.
Related PostsEngineers as category creatorsNew Highlights from the CEC-2009 Simulated Car Racing CompetitionEngineering, Technology & Culture lectures available on video today

2007 10 01

Kumara has just left Urbana-Champaign

Kumara leaving Urbana

Today at 8am, Kumara headed for Portland where Intel is waiting for him. Today at 8am, Urbana is a bit empty.
Related PostsOei thesis available againTake genetic algorithms with GoldbergLet’s dance

2007 08 02

E2K blog has moved

The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at
http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/
Related PostsRob Smith moves to UCLWelcome to IlliGAL Blogging’s new homeGAs, Robots, and Indiana University

2007 08 02

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. […]

2007 06 27

IlliGAL’s new, new look

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 […]

2007 06 21

Noriko Imafuji Yasui takes best paper at ICEIS

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. 
Related PostsPeopleGAs, baseball & the Hall […]

2007 06 21

Another MTV module at TEE

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.
Related PostsmicroCreativity: Module 3 of MTV course onlineMTV module availableCreative modeling module at TEE