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Today I just tagged the final release candidate RC6 for the Meandre Infrastructure. The list of improvement from the previous 1.3.2 release is long, but I just want to highlight a few of them. Standardization of web services and their response information. Also added new services to help manage users, repositories, and jobs. The infrastructure is now able to provide a single system image cluster of Meandre servers. It also provides a new light weight HTML interface for easy administration....

Martin Pelikan just posted on the MEDAL and IlliGAL blogs that the GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline has been extended till January 28. Always, great news to finish polishing last minute changes :D It seems that the website is not yet updated, neither emails sent to the usual mailing lists. Just a matter or time I guess ;) And since I am talking about GECCO 2009, you may also want to take a look at the competitions announcement video that Pier Luca Lanzi put together below....

David E. Goldberg has posted a serie of three short talks about how to promote creative interdisciplinary work in places where highly disciplinary work is conducted. This talks are part of the iFoundry initiative at the University of Illinois. You may find the sequence below and the slides on SlideShare. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-ASQ00pGA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwt4hzo857Q httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqX-2ttcHbM

After attending Albert Orriols’s Ph.D. thesis defense, I ended wondering how many of the question I posted in mine have not been solved. The answer, quite a bit. So, I just decided to dig it up, and put it up here. Yes, the thesis was not written in English (in those days my fellowship had some strings attached), but math formulation, graphs, and results are readable in any language ;) Also, GALE was written and documented in english, and is available here....

Albert Orriols (for those who do not know him, a brilliant learning classifier systems researcher) defended his thesis today. The outcome: Excellent Cum Laude. Albert Orriols Ph.D. defense started at 11am at Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle in Barcelona. The thesis panel was presided by Prof. David E. Goldberg, and formed by members Prof. Francisco Herrera, myself, Dr. Martin Butz, and secretary Prof. Xavier Vilasís). I must say that it has been a great pleasure to read his remarkable thesis and great contributions to the Learning Classifier System field....