I am just attending the first session of the estimation of distribution algorithms track (EDA-1) at GECCO-2011 in Dublin, Ireland. The talks are certainly interesting, I am looking forward to read the papers to get more detail. A little earlier today, I attended the human competitive results competition (HUMIES 2011), and I was quite impressed […]
I am just attending the first session of the estimation of distribution algorithms track (EDA-1) at GECCO-2011 in Dublin, Ireland. The talks are certainly interesting, I am looking forward to read the papers to get more detail.
A little earlier today, I attended the human competitive results competition (HUMIES 2011), and I was quite impressed by some of the papers and not so much by others. I must say though that HUMIES never disappoints me, I always try to attend.
Of course, yesterday the OBUPM-2011 took place, where we had 4 great presentations. Hopefully we can put up the slides on the OBUPM-2011 web site soon, so that you can see what you missed if you missed it.
Last but not least, those who missed the karaoke at the GECCO-2011 opening reception may have missed the only opportunity to see some of the GECCO folks sing. To me the karaoke session proved one thing—most of us will do better if we continue working in research, and don’t try to start a career in singing. But the karaoke session was a blast, thanks mainly to Pier Luca. I was told there are videos around of the event, and that is somewhat scary.
Thus far, the only problem with GECCO-2011 is that I cannot attend two or three sessions at once, so the decision making is rather tough at times.