Archive for 'Research' Category
Consolidating all my blogs
18 May 2008I have started consolidating all my blogs. I won’t be blogging in this blog any longer (although I will still be blogging at the lab blog). The new blog can be found here: http://www.xavierllora.net/
Blogging from the Big Data Computing Study Group 2008
26 March 2008I was lucky to attend the Big Data Computing Study Group 2008. The line of speaker is impressive. The event was held at Yahoo! Sunnyvale, and Thomas Kwan (UIUC alumni know at Yahoo!) helped organize it. I blogged about it on my DITA blog where you can find links to all the related posts.
GECCO 2008 Deadline Extended to January 30th
9 January 2008I just got an email from the GECCO 2008 organizers extending the deadline till January 2008.
GECCO 2008 Deadline
4 December 2007The deadline for the next Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008) is approaching. Januray 16, 2008 is the date. Get ready!
LCS researcher changes jobs
19 September 2007This is an excerpt from Alwyn Barry’s web page (Thanks Pier Luca for pointing it out)
Most people who know me will be aware that I am changing job shortly. I will be leaving the University of Bath from 30th September 2007, and will no longer be an academic. I am moving to Street in Somerset to become the Pastor of Street Baptist Church. I am still happy to answer any questions relating to my previous research, so do feel free to contact me via my new email address, which is linked from this site.
Alwyn, it has been a pleasure to be able to interact with you. I would like to wish you the best in your new endeavor, knowing that you will give your 100% as usual.
Kumara Sastry Ph.D.
7 September 2007 |
| Kumara’s PhD defense |
Kumara has just defended his Ph.D. thesis “Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling: Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry and Advances in Scalability”. The gallery above shows snapshots of Kumara in action. If you have not taken a look at his excellent work, put it on your todo list, you will not regret it. Congratulations!
Live from The Engineer of the Future
5 September 2007I am sitting at the workshop on the Engineer of the Future hosted at NCSA. The workshop is part of the ETSI lecture series organized by Michael Loui and David E. Goldberg. The talks so far are very interesting. Hard to highlight all the relevant points, but I would like to mention the experience Sherra E. Kerns is sharing about their experience at Olin College. The engagement with the curriculum that students show is very remarkable. She mentioned current established curricula tend to kill innovation (and engagement). That comment resonate with my personal experience freshmen was always more rewarding and challenging than last year students.
Back in town and a Virtuoso
17 July 2007Vacations and GECCO were great. I am still trying to catch up. Hope everything gets up to speed soon. Just a quick note to jump start: Dealing with relational databases, metadata stores, DAV servers? If so, take a look at Virtuoso, you won’t be disappointed 
GECCO 2007 Hat Trick
12 July 2007Yup, never happened to me before. In John Koza’s words: Hat Trick, best paper in EDA track and two Bronze medals in the HUMIES competition. I just think that I was lucky and blessed to have the pleasure to work with such great people. It would not have happened if it wasn’t for them. Below you can find some of the presentations for the above Hat Trick, as well as some other work I presented on genetics-based machine learning.
Jon Kleinberg visits UIUC
1 May 2007Jon Kleinberg visited UIUC today and gave a lecture. You may find my notes on my DITA blog.