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I am sure you all saw it already, but Steve Job’s keynote at MacWorld let me speachless. Besides AppleTV, interesting by itself—now there is a new Catalan TV (Vilaweb.tv) channel just broadcasting over the net that I will be able to watch at home in Urbana easily with one of those—Steve dropped the boom of the new iPhone—a phone+iPod+internet device. Smartphones and blackberries are facing a dark and uncertain future. I remember having a conversation with Kumara Sastry not long ago were he was complaining about not finding anything new on the cell phone market (he wanted to change his cell phone)....

The volume Advances at the frontier of Learning Classifier Systems is already in Springer hands for the final stages of editing and printing. The volume is going to be printed as Springer’s LNCS 4399 volume. You can find the tentative table of contents here.

Julio Medem has finished his new coming movie. The director of “La ardilla roja” (The red squirrel), “Tierra” (Earth), and “Los amantes del círculo polar” (Lovers of the Artich Circle)-–among others—has finished shooting “Caótica Ana” (Cahotic Ana) which should open Spring 2007. I just hope he has forgotten about the boring “Lucía i el sexo” (Sex and Lucía) and he has recovered his fascinating storyteller qualities. Anyway, lots of expectations every time he comes up with a new movie....

I run into Antònia Font last summer, but I did not have the chance to buy their discs in Girona. I hope I can do it before going back to Urbana in a few days. Below you may find some of their videos on YouTube. Happy 2007 :D

GECCO 2007 is approaching. The deadline for paper submission is January 17. You can find more instructions on how to format and submit the papers on the GECCO 2007 papers’ page.