John Holland to give a keynote at GECCO-2009 in Montreal, Canada

John H. Holland will give a keynote speech at GECCO-2009 on July 12, 2009 (Sunday), 10:40am-11:40am. The talk is entitled Genetic Algorithms: Long Ago [Past] and Far Away [Future] and the abstract of the talk follows:

It was in the mid-50’s of the 20th century when I realized that Fisher’s fundamental theorem could be extended […]

John H. Holland

John H. Holland will give a keynote speech at GECCO-2009 on July 12, 2009 (Sunday), 10:40am-11:40am. The talk is entitled Genetic Algorithms: Long Ago [Past] and Far Away [Future] and the abstract of the talk follows:

It was in the mid-50’s of the 20th century when I realized that Fisher’s fundamental theorem could be extended from individual alleles to co-adapted sets of alleles, without linearization. That led to a realization that recombination, rather than mutation, was the main mechanism providing grist for the natural selection mill. There was little theory concerning recombination in those days, but now recombination is a standard explanation for biological innovations, such as swine flu.

Much later, in the early 1990’s, GA’s provided the “adaptive” part of rule-based models of complex adaptive systems (CAS), such as the artificial stock market pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute. Tag-based signal processing occurs in systems as different as biological cells, language acquisition, and ecosystems. CAS models offer a unified way to study the on-going co-evolution of boundary and tag networks in these systems.

Another keynote speaker at GECCO-2009 is Demetri Terzopoulos, who will give the talk Artificial Life Simulation of Humans and Lower Animals: From Biomechanics to Intelligence on July 11 (Saturday) at 4.10pm-5.50pm. As if this wasn’t enough, GECCO-2009 will also feature an invited talk of Hans-Paul Schwefel at the Learning from Failures in Evolutionary Computation (LFFEC) Workshop, which is entitled Failures as stepping stones to success or per aspera ad astra.

More details can be found on GECCO-2009 webpage.

NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas

Two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Xavier Llorà presents how linkage learning can be achieve in Pittsburgh LCS, whereas Jorge Casillas reviews his work using XCS and Fuzzy LCS.

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  1. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi

Two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Xavier Llorà presents how linkage learning can be achieve in Pittsburgh LCS, whereas Jorge Casillas reviews his work using XCS and Fuzzy LCS.

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi

Everything must go

Manny’s Music, a classic among the guitar stores founded in 1935, has been definitely closed. I just visited this place twice, but the first time I already felt a unique vibe coming from the stories that it enclosed. This store, which walls were covered by pictures of legendary stars and real gems of guitars, had […]

Mannys Music, New York (USA)

Manny's Music, New York (USA)

Mannys Music, New York (USA)

Manny's Music, New York (USA)

Manny’s Music, a classic among the guitar stores founded in 1935, has been definitely closed. I just visited this place twice, but the first time I already felt a unique vibe coming from the stories that it enclosed. This store, which walls were covered by pictures of legendary stars and real gems of guitars, had lived through fashion without losing its identity, which was as exceptional as admirable.

Its last day was really sad. Some people came to recall old and happy memories and see off this small museum. Many others were bargain hunters looking for a great discount. There were also visitors that became part of this “everything must go” by chance since this institution was one of the main attractions around Times Square. However, they did not expect to witness the end of the tale.

Although nothing lasts forever, I do not like losing this kind of places because of money troubles and hope that, at the same time and in another place, a future legend with more luck is ready to take Manny’s Music baton.

Mannys Music, New York (USA)

Manny's Music, New York (USA)

Mannys Music, New York (USA)

Manny's Music, New York (USA)

Squared Sun

May said goodbye with two magic moments. On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, the so-called Manhattanhenge, an astronomical event in which the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Manhattan’s grid, took place. The connoisseurs were ready in the strategic points, along the 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th streets, with their cameras, to hunt the […]

May said goodbye with two magic moments. On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, the so-called Manhattanhenge, an astronomical event in which the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Manhattan’s grid, took place. The connoisseurs were ready in the strategic points, along the 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th streets, with their cameras, to hunt the perfect framing, the alignment between the Sun and the streets and buildings of the City. Those who didn’t know anything about the event could even feel that something unusual was happening since the rays of sunlight that filtered through the streets flooded them with an intense bright orange light. For all of us, it was the gift of the day. Simply impressive.

Here you have some shots of these gorgeous sunsets. Just for your information, there are two more opportunities on July 11 and July 12.

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA)

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture}

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA)

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Treatment suggested by FX}

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA)

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture}

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA)

34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture}

42nd Street Manhattan, New York (USA)

42nd Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture}

Editorial board renewed

We have just completed the “renewal” process for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines editorial board, the most exciting aspect of which is that we now have a new Associate Editor, Pauline C. Haddow (of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and four new regular members of the editorial board: Marc Ebner (of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany), Jason H. Moore (of Dartmouth Medical School, USA), Sara Silva (of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Tina Yu (of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Thanks to all of the continuing associate editors for helping with this process, and welcome to the new editors! I think that the journal will be even stronger with these additions.

The full editorial board can be found here.

We have just completed the “renewal” process for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines editorial board, the most exciting aspect of which is that we now have a new Associate Editor, Pauline C. Haddow (of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and four new regular members of the editorial board: Marc Ebner (of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany), Jason H. Moore (of Dartmouth Medical School, USA), Sara Silva (of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Tina Yu (of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Thanks to all of the continuing associate editors for helping with this process, and welcome to the new editors! I think that the journal will be even stronger with these additions.

The full editorial board can be found here.

23 submissions to special issue

We received 23 submissions to the Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. This is a very healthy number, indicating strong interest in the area and good prospects for an exciting special issue. Congratulations to guest editors Marco Tomassini and Leonardo Vanneschi, thanks to all of the submitters, and thanks in advance to all of the reviewers!

We received 23 submissions to the Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. This is a very healthy number, indicating strong interest in the area and good prospects for an exciting special issue. Congratulations to guest editors Marco Tomassini and Leonardo Vanneschi, thanks to all of the submitters, and thanks in advance to all of the reviewers!

New Highlights from the CEC-2009 Simulated Car Racing Competition

New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:

COBOSTAR (Winner of the CEC-2009 competition)
Onieva and Pelta (2nd place)
Cardamone (3rd place, winner of the CIG-2008 competition)
Mr. Racer (4th place)
Perez and Saez (5th place)
Red Java (6th place)

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New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:

New Highlights from the CEC-2009 Simulated Car Racing Competition

New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:

COBOSTAR (Winner of the CEC-2009 competition)
Onieva and Pelta (2nd place)
Cardamone (3rd place, winner of the CIG-2008 competition)
Mr. Racer (4th place)
Perez and Saez (5th place)
Red Java (6th place)

New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:

Sullivan Street Bakery

The Sullivan St Bakery, located in the 47th Street between the 10th and 11th Avenues, bakes every morning the famous bombolinis. What is that? It is a spongy full doughnut with vanilla cream or raspberry jam filling and sugar on the top of its outer crust. Mmm… Delicious! This breakfast is one of the petits […]

Two delicious bombolinis

Two delicious bombolinis from the Sullivan St Bakery

The Sullivan St Bakery, located in the 47th Street between the 10th and 11th Avenues, bakes every morning the famous bombolinis. What is that? It is a spongy full doughnut with vanilla cream or raspberry jam filling and sugar on the top of its outer crust. Mmm… Delicious! This breakfast is one of the petits plaisirs of the life.