ZigBeeCars at the “Saló de l’ensenyament”

What does the equation ZigBee + Cars = ZigBeeCars mean?
On March 19, ZigBeeCars will be presented in the Saló de l’ensenyament in view of promoting the engineering at La Salle. In a space of 35 square meters, offered by the EnginyCat program of the Generalitat de Catalunya, a spectacular racetrack will allow the […]

What does the equation ZigBee + Cars = ZigBeeCars mean?
On March 19, ZigBeeCars will be presented in the Saló de l’ensenyament in view of promoting the engineering at La Salle. In a space of 35 square meters, offered by the EnginyCat program of the Generalitat de Catalunya, a spectacular racetrack will allow the […]

Learning Classifier Systems, Springer LNAI 4998

Learning Classifier Systems:
10th International Workshop, IWLCS 2006, Seattle, MA, USA, July 8, 2006, and 11th International Workshop, IWLCS 2007, London, UK, July 8, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 4998
Bacardit, J.; Bernadó-Mansilla, E.; Butz, M.V.; Kovacs, T.; Llorà, X.; Takadama, K. (Eds.)
2008, X, 307 p., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-88137-7


Abstract

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-conference proceedings of two consecutive International Workshops on Learning Classifier Systems that took place in Seattle, WA, USA in July 2006, and in London, UK, in July 2007 – all hosted by the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the workshop contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation, analysis of the system, mechanisms, new directions, as well as applications.

Ski day in Baqueira

Some days ago, some friends and I went to Baqueira to take the opportunity to enjoy the last snowfalls in Catalonia. And as always, we shot some of the most impressing slopes that we did. Below, there are a video of Francesc and a video of mine. I’ll continue posting more videos after the […]

Some days ago, some friends and I went to Baqueira to take the opportunity to enjoy the last snowfalls in Catalonia. And as always, we shot some of the most impressing slopes that we did. Below, there are a video of Francesc and a video of mine. I’ll continue posting more videos after the next ski days :).

Francesc’s Video

Albert’s video


A review of procedures to evolve quantum algorithms

Abstract  There exist quantum algorithms that are more efficient than their classical counterparts; such algorithms were invented by
Shor in 1994 and then Grover in 1996. A lack of invention since Grover’s algorithm has been commonly attri…

Abstract  There exist quantum algorithms that are more efficient than their classical counterparts; such algorithms were invented by
Shor in 1994 and then Grover in 1996. A lack of invention since Grover’s algorithm has been commonly attributed to the non-intuitive
nature of quantum algorithms to the classically trained person. Thus, the idea of using computers to automatically generate
quantum algorithms based on an evolutionary model emerged. A limitation of this approach is that quantum computers do not
yet exist and quantum simulation on a classical machine has an exponential order overhead. Nevertheless, early research into
evolving quantum algorithms has shown promise. This paper provides an introduction into quantum and evolutionary algorithms
for the computer scientist not familiar with these fields. The exciting field of using evolutionary algorithms to evolve quantum
algorithms is then reviewed.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Paper
  • DOI 10.1007/s10710-009-9080-7
  • Authors
    • Adrian Gepp, Bond University School of Information Technology Robina QLD Australia
    • Phil Stocks, Bond University School of Information Technology Robina QLD Australia

Usages of R


R has gained a lot of traction on the scientific community for data analysis, modeling, and exploratory work. I just run into a post by Michael E. Driscoll in his Data Evolution blog about how R is used in Google and Facebook. Nothing new, but what got my attention was ParallelR. If you have been […]

R has gained a lot of traction on the scientific community for data analysis, modeling, and exploratory work. I just run into a post by Michael E. Driscoll in his Data Evolution blog about how R is used in Google and Facebook. Nothing new, but what got my attention was ParallelR. If you have been using R for large problems, I am pretty sure you have been wishing that there was some parallelization capabilities. ParallelR targets the problem, and it definitely an option to check out.

The ideal engineer

Nowadays our society is worried about the decrease in the number of engineers and we do not understand why the profession that ten years ago was seen the job of the future, has not turned out to be so.
On the 22nd January, the program “Einstein a la platja” on BTV raised this question with […]

Nowadays our society is worried about the decrease in the number of engineers and we do not understand why the profession that ten years ago was seen the job of the future, has not turned out to be so.
On the 22nd January, the program “Einstein a la platja” on BTV raised this question with […]

Goldberg’s and Ollé’s interview on BTV “The engineer of the future?”

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of […]

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of technology that we use and of presenting the heroes that created the objects that seem to have become indispensable in our life. In summary, engineering schools, and specifically we as teachers, need to spread the joy of engineering and never forget that engineers are people that can build applications that may improve people’s life.

All these ideas are complemented in a discussion in which Ramon Ollé and Josep Amat participate. The discussion resulted in many valuable arguments that may explain the decreasing number of students that go to the engineering school and in some ideas of how this tendency could be reversed. Arguments in favor of both introducing more business concepts and introducing more technical concepts appear in the discussion.

To wrap up: a video really worth watching which I think that makes several key points about what engineering is and what the engineering of the future should be. The only drawback: the language. Except for Goldberg’s interview, the remaining part of the video is only in Catalan.