http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Genetic Algorithms Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from: http://www.sigevolution.org The issue features: Computational Intelligence Marketing by Arthur Kordon Pyevolve: a Python Open-Source Framework for Genetic Algorithms by Christian S. Perone Calls & calendar The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically. Pier Luca Lanzi (EIC) http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/11/09/sigevolution-volume-4-issue-1/ The Alliance for Promoting Innovation in Engineering Education (aPIE2) is launching a new initiative,  starting Monday, 19 October 2009 at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education: Twitter for Engineering Education Transformation and Innovation (TwEETI). More information on the TwEETI initiative is availabe at the TwEETI tab of the www.apie2.org website, but ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/10/18/tweet-for-engineering-computer-science-education/ Monday, October 12  7:00 pm 1320 Digital Computer Lab 1304 W. Springfield 2009 marks not only the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth but also publication of the first evolutionary theory, Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique.  "Lamarckian evolution" is usually distinguished from "Darwinian evolution" by its reliance on the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and as such, ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/10/12/laura-landweber-to-present-the-evolution-of-cellular-computing-a-modern-take-on-lamarckian-inheritance/ See post here. http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/10/09/philosophy-for-engineers-made-quick-easy/ Pier Luca Lanzi just sent a note saying saying that the proceedings of the 2009 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2009) are now available on-line at http://www.ieee-cig.org/cig-2009/Proceedings/ http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/09/25/cig-2009-proceedings-available-online/ The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from: http://www.sigevolution.org The issue features: The issue features: An Interview with Hans-Paul Schwefel with an introduction by Günter Rudolph Memetic Algorithms by Natalio Krasnogor Learning From Failures in Evolutionary Computation @ GECCO-2009 new issues of journals calls & calendar http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/09/22/sigevolution-volume-3-issue-4/ George Dyson, historian and philosopher of science and author of “Darwin Among Machines” will present two talks as a part of the Colloquium Series “Biology and Beyond”. On September 29th at 7:00p.m. Dyson will present Darwin Among Machines: From ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/09/18/george-dyson-to-present-at-u-of-i/ fPET-2010, co-organized by IlliGAL lab director, Dave Goldberg, has issued a call for papers: The 2010 Forum for Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) to be held 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday Evening-Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA has issued its first call for papers. Abstracts (500-750 words) are due ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/09/05/2010-forum-on-philosophy-engineering-technology-fpet-2010-call-for-papers-28-dec-09/ The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education took place this weekend at the 4H camp at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois.  iFoundry freshmen formed an iCommunity consisting of 4 teams.  Many of the ideas in the design of iFoundry are drawn from the practice of genetic algorithms and evolutionary ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/08/25/ifoundry-icommunity-ilaunch-takes-place/ The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (FPET-2010) will be held on 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening through Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. The event is an outgrowth of the WPE-2007 and WPE-2008 meetings held in Delft and London. Philosophical reasoning was important to the ... http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/blog/2009/08/11/save-the-date-for-philosophy-engineering-technology-9-10-may-2010/