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2007 06 07

Blogging live from Technopolicy conference

over at TEE.
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2007 06 05

microCreativity: Module 3 of MTV course online

The third module from my Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries course is available in a powerpoint reader over at TEE.
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2007 06 05

Singularity Institute blog starts

Inspired by Ray Kurzweil's writing, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is cranking up its operations, and it recently inaugurated its blog here.  Ben Goertzel's involvement as Director of Research ensures a role for genetic algorithms and genetic programming in helping to bring about the singularity.
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2007 06 04

SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 1

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. The issue features:

EC Practitioners: Results of the First Surveyby Gregory S. Hornby & Tina Yu
Interactive Music Composition, by Ying-ping Chen
GECCO-2007 Highlights

Best Papers Nominees
The Competitions
The Workshops
The Tutorials

announcements
dissertation corner
forthcoming papers
calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
Pier Luca Lanzi (EIC)
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2007 06 04

Invasive weed optimization?

I saw a post on the genetic programming list, I think, on a "new" kind of optimization algorithm called, get this, invasive weed optmization. I know nothing about the crux of what's being done or claimed for IWO, but it seems to me we've seen this sort of thing before.  It's almost a recipe:

Take a […]

2007 06 04

Lego evolution

over at ThinkArtificial here. Hat tip Medal Blogging.
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2007 06 03

Koza has job opening for GPer

John Koza is seeking a full-time employee to work on GP applications:

Genetic Programming Inc. is a small privately funded corporation operating a beowulf cluster computer system consisting of 1,000 Pentium processors to do research in applying genetic programming to produce  human-competitive results.   Our current focus is on automating the invention process and generating useful,   patentable, […]

2007 05 28

Philosophy & engineering workshop announced

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday).  Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.
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2007 05 28

The Pelikan & the fish

Shige Tsutsui sends along this photo of IlliGAL angler Martin Pelikan at work off the coast of Japan.  Apparently this is the one that did not get away.

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2007 05 27

“What is Creativity?” on TEE

Module 2, "What is Creativity?" from my newest course, Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries, is up at TEE here. 
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