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Our GECCO paper is accepted!

Ellery and I just got word that our paper that we submitted to GECCO was accepted! We’re currently in the panic of getting our Genetic Programming in Theory and Practice (GPTP) 2005 paper ready before Tuesday’s deadline, all amongst getting our CSci tenure-line candidate interviews arranged and done.

And make changes to our GECCO paper before the camera ready copy is due.

And work on extending it to a journal paper.

And review GPTP papers.

And do about a million other things that I can’t even begin to list. (Don’t I teach classes?)

Eek!

But good news helps – onward into the fog!

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You should definitely check out the UCC ad

In wandering around the web today I stumbled across several blogs that had banner ads promoting a United Church of Christ (UCC) ad that NBC and CBS have refused to air. I ignored it the first few times (hard to imagine why I’d care about some church’s ad), but finally the repetition (in contexts I respected) convinced me to give it a click. I’m glad I did, because it’s quite excellent and I highly recommend it.

The ad is a wonderfully effective comment on the failure of many U.S. churches to be inclusive of those different from their “standard” member, and as such must be pretty uncomfortable for the “establishment”. But to have NBC and CBS refuse outright to air the ad is pretty remarkable. Presumably the “problem” is in significant part our national homophobia. One couple turned away from the “other” church is a pair of men holding hands, and one couple featured in the inclusive community at the end is a pair of women.

Head over to AccessibleAirwaves.org to see the ad and learn more. There’s some really interesting material there, including a nice blog entry on the role of blogs in helping the UCC get their message out when the networks won’t.

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