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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 by 28 December 2009 (Monday) using the fPET-2010 submissions page on the the webpage www.philengtech.org/submission.  The call for papers may be viewed online here or downloaded as a PDF file here.

For more information about the forum contact Diane Michelfelder (michelfelder@macalester.edu) or Dave Goldberg (deg@illinois.edu).

More information is available at the fPET-2010 website at www.philengtech.org.

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 computation in a social setting. Watch the iLaunch video below:

See other iLaunch materials on the iFoundry website www.ifoundry.illinois.edu.

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 writing of The Design of Innovation and DoI author David E. Goldberg is one of FPET-2010’s organizers. More information is available at www.philengtech.org.

Besides his talk Thursday, 16 April 2009 (here), David E. Goldberg, IlliGAL director, will give another talk in Nottingham on Friday, 17 April 2009 at noon, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Era (here).

IlliGAL lab director, David E. Goldberg, will give a talk Not Your Grandmother’s Genetic Algorithm on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 from 12:00 to 13:00 in Lecture room C60, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.

Abstract: Genetic algorithms (GAs)–search procedures inspired by the mechanics of natural selection and genetics–have been increasingly applied across the spectrum of human endeavor, but some researchers mistakenly think of them as slow, unreliable, and without much theoretical support. This talk briefly introduces GAs, but quickly shifts to a line of work that has succeeded in supporting GA mechanics with design theory that has been used to demonstrate GA scalability, speed, and range of reliable applicability. Key elements of this theory are discussed to give insight into this accomplishment and to make the point that fast, scalable GAs may also be viewed as first-order models of human innovative or inventive processes. The talk highlights recent results in breaking the billion-variable optimization barrier for the first time, and points to a variety of opportunities for efficiency enhancement that should be useful in the application of genetic algorithms to a variety of software engineering problems.

For more information about the talk contact Jaume Barcadit (jaume.bacardit@nottingham.ac.uk).

IlliGAL is now on twitter @illigal.

IlliGAL lab director, David E. Goldberg, is on twitter @deg511 and lab member Xavier Llora is @xllora.  The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education is @ifoundry.

My talk at HollandFest09 is here or in the viewer below.