GECCO-2010 competitions announced

The announcement for the GECCO-2010 competitions is out, and it looks good!

GP for self-replication in cellular automata

A new piece on the use of genetic programming for self-replication in cellular automata, by Zhijian Pan and James A. Reggia, has been published in the journal Artificial Life. Previous work on this topic using non-GP genetic algorithms was intriguing, but I always thought that GP could produce even more interesting results. This new article appears to bear that out.

GP (by any name) on RadioLab

Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt were on the ever-entertaining RadioLab (in the last segment of this show on "Limits"), discussing their remarkable work on "Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data" that was published in Science last year. Although I don't think they call it GP explicitly in the radio show or even in the main Science article, GP is central to their work, as is explained in detail in the article's Supporting Online Material (links to Science are not free).

SIGEVOlution Volume 4, Issue 4, is now available

The SIGEVOlution newsletter Volume 4 Issue 4 is now available for download from: http://www.sigevolution.org

The new issue features:

• Galactic Arms Race by Erin J. Hastings & Kenneth O. Stanley
• A Perl Primer for EA Practitioners by Juan-Julián Merelo
• New issues of journals
• Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Thanks to Pier Luca Lanzi, SIGEvolution Editor-in-Chief.

SIGEVOlution Volume 4, Issue 3, is now available

New issues of the SIGEVOlution newsletter are appearing quite rapidly and the latest---Volume 4 Issue 3---is now available for you to download from: http://www.sigevolution.org

The new issue features:

• Issues in Applying Computational Intelligence by Arthur Kordon
• JavaXCSF by Patrick O. Stalph & Martin V. Butz
• Dissertation corner
• New issues of journals
• Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Thanks to Pier Luca Lanzi, SIGEvolution Editor-in-Chief.

GPEM 11(1) hardcopy -- new color!

Subscribers should by now have received their hardcopy editions of GPEM 11(1), and noticed the attractive new blue color! Let me know what you think!

FOGA XI CFP

The 11th Foundations of Genetic Algorithms conference will be held on January 5-9, 2011 in Schwarzenberg, Austria. Submissions (10-12 pages) on the theoretical foundations of any type of evolutionary computation can be emailed to foga@fhv.at. The deadline for submissions is July 5, 2010. For more details see http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2011.