{"id":185,"date":"2005-06-27T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/27\/a-big-howdy-from-gecco-and-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2005-07-04T20:47:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T01:47:03","slug":"a-big-howdy-from-gecco-and-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/27\/a-big-howdy-from-gecco-and-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"A big howdy from GECCO and Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isgec.org\/gecco-2005\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.isgec.org\/gecco-2005\/graphics\/home\/logo.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"GECCO logo\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m in the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isgec.org\/gecco-2005\/\"><acronym title = \"Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference\">GECCO<\/acronym> 2005<\/a> here in Washington, D.C., with Ellery and Wayne (two UMM students\/alums).  We arrived Friday (<a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\">WeatherGirl<\/a> and my 16th anniversary!) and head back Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The conference has gone well so far, and today we skipped out some to check out some Smithsonian museums (a bit of time in Air and Space, Natural History, and then some solo time in the National Museum of African Art and the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art).<\/p>\n<p>Internet sort of sucks here (more later), and Ellery and I don&#8217;t have our talk finished (and we present Wednesday), so I don&#8217;t know how much blogging there will be, but I&#8217;ll keep trying.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of GECCO 2005 here in Washington, D.C., with Ellery and Wayne (two UMM students\/alums). We arrived Friday (WeatherGirl and my 16th anniversary!) and head back Thursday. The conference has gone well so far, and today we skipped out some to check out some Smithsonian museums (a bit of time in Air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/06\/27\/a-big-howdy-from-gecco-and-washington-dc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A big howdy from GECCO and Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,12,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-2Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/03\/09\/our-gecco-paper-is-accepted\/","url_meta":{"origin":185,"position":0},"title":"Our GECCO paper is accepted!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 Mar 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Ellery and I just got word that our paper that we submitted to GECCO was accepted! 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