One talk and a visit to UK

September 21 I was invited to give a talk at the Computer Science Department at UIUC. During the talk “Combating User Fatigue and Contradictions in Subjective-based Optimization Schemes” I reviewed some of the research I have been involved about active interactive genetic algorithms. The PDF of the presentation can be downloaded here. I also gave the same presentation to some of the members of the ASAP research group at the University of Nottingham. Natalio Krasnogor invited me for a visit. The main topic was latest advances on Pittsburgh LCS (Jaume Bacardit is working there on protein folding problems using Pitt-style LCS). I really enjoyed interact with people there—lots of challenges and interesting discussions. Oh, I almost forgot, the three days I was in Nottingham I saw the sun most of the day :).