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I’ve been sitting on this for a while I waited for EuroGP to get their web site updated; they have, freeing me up to do a little unabashed chest-thumping, leavened with some praise for UMM<\/a>‘s excellent students. <\/p>\n

A few weeks from now the Eleventh European conference on Genetic Programming<\/a> (EuroGP) will happen in Naples Italy. The only other time I’ve been to EuroGP was in 2001 when we were here on sabbatical the first time. I really love<\/em> the conference, and it’s small and intimate and tends to have a really high signal-to-noise ratio. Unfortunately, it’s also an expensive flight from Minnesota for a three day event, and the timing tends to be really awkward in my teaching schedule, so I’ve never made it back. One of my many<\/em> fond memories of that conference was winning the best paper award with Riccardo Poli<\/a> for a pair of papers we’d written together as part of that sabbatical visit. \"Lake<\/a> (Oddly, both times I’ve attended have happened to be the only two times it’s been in Italy. The little photo is from the 2001 event at Lake Como.)<\/p>\n

The best paper nominations for this year’s event<\/a> have been released, and I’m quite excited that both of the papers that I submitted this year are on the list. One is another join project with Riccardo, and the other is a paper with two UMM undergrads: Brian Ohs and Tyler Hutchison.<\/p>\n

That’s Tyler in the photo up top, presenting some work he did with Andy Korth and I that won the best student paper award at MICS a year ago; Tyler also did the cover illustration<\/a> for the forthcoming book Riccardo, Bill Langdon, and I are just wrapping up. In a big happy, Tyler was able to pull together the funds to fly out for the conference, so we’ll be able to do a joint presentation enlivened by his presence and cool drawings. Unfortunately Brian can’t make it, but it’s cool that Tyler can; this will be the first of my students co-authors that’s made it to a European conference with me.<\/p>\n

The competition is gonna be tough for the best paper award, including a very nice paper by one of Riccardo’s students (Stephen Dignum). Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n

The full program is also now on-line (as a PDF)<\/a> — it looks like some cool material. I’m quite looking forward to the conference, although I must say I’m a bit nervous about the ongoing trash crisis in Naples (here<\/a> and there<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\t

\n\tTags: Art<\/a>, awards<\/a>, EuroGP<\/a>, evolutionary computation<\/a>, genetic programming<\/a>, news<\/a>, programming<\/a>, Research<\/a>, Sabbatical<\/a>
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