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Coevolution of Pattern Generators and Recognizers

thyago — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:17:00 +0000

A new technical report was posted in the Illigal technical reports page (here). For a full list of Illigal reports click here.

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

Pier Luca Lanzi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:23:16 +0000

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/

Google analytics and the zen of iGAs

Xavier Llorà — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:21:17 +0000

I just wrote a few thoughts about how Google Analytics is pushing for an evolutionary view of website design and optimization here.

UC Berkeley full lectures on YouTube

Xavier Llorà — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:58:49 +0000

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

Kumara has just left Urbana-Champaign

Xavier Llorà — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:13:05 +0000

Kumara leaving Urbana

Today at 8am, Kumara headed for Portland where Intel is waiting for him. Today at 8am, Urbana is a bit empty.

E2K blog has moved

Xavier Llorà — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:39:12 +0000

The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at

http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/

Google Ads and genetic algorithms

Kumara Sastry — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:18:01 +0000

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. Search sessions are automatically grouped into general patterns, and then random ads are presented, and when an ad performs well, more ads from that ad segment will be displayed next time, and so on, causing a “survival of the fittest ad” environment. Then when Google meets the press in 2012, they can tell the journalists, “We don’t have a clue anymore how our ads work, but click-throughs are higher than ever.”

IlliGAL’s new, new look

David E. Goldberg — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:02:52 +0000

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 the new setup should allow us to improve content and service. Thanks for your patience while we get the site up to snuff. If you note broken links or problems please report them to the webmaster

Noriko Imafuji Yasui takes best paper at ICEIS

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:27:26 +0000

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.

Another MTV module at TEE

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:00:22 +0000

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.