Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

A new technical report was posted in the Illigal technical reports page (here). For a full list of Illigal reports click here.
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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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I just wrote a few thoughts about how Google Analytics is pushing for an evolutionary view of website design and optimization here.
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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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