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I tend to scribble a lot
A photo demonstrating how much I scribble on papers when I'm editing.
Also posted in Computing, Education, My writing, Photography, Science, Writing Tagged editing, GECCO, genetic programming, my photography, textbook, Writing Comments closed
MSP Humphrey terminal: A modern ghost town
The Hubert H. Humphrey terminal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was eerily empty and quiet today.
Also posted in Computing, Events, Science, Travels Tagged conference, EuroGP, evolutionary computation, GECCO, MSP, msp airport, travel Comments closed
Far too many photos from Dagstuhl
Regular readers here will likely remember various past posts extolling the virtues of Dagstuhl, this really wonderful computing research facility in Germany. I’ve been lucky enough to attend several seminars on the Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms in the past, and have taken (and posted) quite a few photos from those trips.
A few months ago [...]
Also posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Tagged Computing, conference, Dagstuhl, documentary photography, Germany, Photography, Research, Science, seminar, workshop Comments closed
So much to do – so little time
Sorry for the lack of activity here – an EPSRC grant with Riccardo came through, which is big happy news. The downside is that there’s a ton of research work to be done in a very short period of time. We were lucky enough to have Ellery Crane visiting for the last two [...]
Education’s an investment, not an expense!
Just did a pile o’ dishes and listened to a SciAm podcast featuring the remarks of Robert Rosner (head of Argonne National Laboratory). The short version is that science (and, I would argue, education in general) is a matter of necessity plus vision. First, science is not a luxury, but instead a necessity:
Without [...]
A little wind-swept
On Friday after the EvoStar/EuroGP events wrapped up, Bill (Langdon), Riccardo (Poli), Tyler (Hutchison), and I spent a couple of hours being tourists in Naples, starting at Castel dell’Ovo ("Egg Castle"). This castle sits on a little island just off the shore right in front of our hotel and the conference center, so we [...]
Also posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Sabbatical, Travels Tagged Bill Langdon, conference, EuroGP, Italy, Naples, Tyler Hutchison Comments closed
UMM students are just so cool!
As mentioned earlier, our paper “Semantic building blocks in genetic programming” with Brian Ohs (UMM ‘08) and Tyler Hutchison (UMM ‘07) was nominated for Best Paper at EuroGP 2008 in Naples, Italy.
We won!
That a paper co-authored with two undergraduates from a small, public, undergraduate liberal arts institution like the University of Minnesota, Morris, could win [...]
Also posted in Computing, Education, Events, My writing, Sabbatical, Science, Writing Tagged Art, Books, conference, EuroGP, evolution, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, Italy, Naples, Sabbatical, Science, Semantic Building Blocks in Genetic Programming, University of Minnesota Morris Comments closed
A heck of a party!
Last night’s unveiling of A Field Guide to Genetic Programming was a huge success! We had one of the poster “stalls” with 50 copies of the book that we’d purchased from Lulu as our initial “print run”. We were wearing cool t-shirts sporting that wonderful cover, had the nice poster shown to the [...]
Also posted in Books, Computing, Education, Events, My writing, Sabbatical, Science, Writing Tagged A Field Guide to GP, Books, EuroGP, genetic programming, Naples, unveiling Comments closed
One of the best walking robot demos I’ve ever seen
Wow – this is quite amazing. About mid-way through Big Dog (a defense project from Boston Dynamics) slips on some glaze ice and recovers without actually falling down, which involves some super cool real-time responses. The video is long-ish, but definitely worth the investment.
I’d love to know what the burn out rate for [...]
Also posted in Computing, Science, Video Tagged artificial intelligence, locomotion, robotics, Science, Video, walking Comments closed
This is really why I teach