The GECCO 2011 website has been updated with detailed information of this year’s competitions. Interested? Here is the list of open competitions: Demolition derby Evolutionary art GPUs for genetic and evolutionary computation Simulated car racing championship Visualizing evolution

The call for workshop proposals for GECCO 2011 is out. The GECCO-2011 program committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16. The deadline for proposals is November 8th. More info at is available at the online call for workshop proposals document.

“Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence” edited by Francisco Fernández de Vega & Erick Cantú-Paz and published by Springer is out for pre-order. The first chapter “When Huge is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing” of the book was written together with coauthors Abhishek Verma, Roy Campbell, and David E. Goldberg describing how data-intensive computing can help push the size of problems that GAs and EDAs can address. You may find the abstact of the book below. ...

A lot of water under the bridge has gone by since the first release of Meandre 1.4.X series. In January I went back to the drawing board and start sketching what was going to be 1.5.X series. The slide deck embedded above is a extended list of the thoughts during the process. As usual, I started collecting feedback from people using 1.4.X in production, things that worked, things that needed improvement, things that were just plain over complicated. The hot recurrent topics that people using 1.4.X could be mainly summarized as: ...

If you used to check my Twitter stream in the center column at the bottom of my blog, you would have noticed I have just replaced it with my Google Buzz profile stream instead. Yes, you can still see the my Twitter activity, but you will also be able to (1) see aggregated content/activity coming from other sources in one place, (2) subscribe to the stream, and (3) comment on each of the entries. As, I said, a minor update to improve its functionality a bit more. ...