Vacations were over quite a while ago, but things kept piling on my desk. Finally I succeeded clearing some big chunks of matters out of it. Enough that I could go to the Design Theory and Methodology (DTM 2006) conference in Philadelphia last Tuesday. The conference is held as part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2006) . Yan Jin invited me to join the panel he organized on Intelligent Systems and Innovation....
by Xavier Llorà (2006). ACM SIGEvolution, Volume 1 , Issue 3, pp. 10-17. Link to the Journal. Abstract Evolution to Knowledge (E2K) is a set of Data to Knowledge (D2K) modules and itineraries that perform genetic algorithms (GA) and genetics-based machine learning (GBML) related tasks. The goal of E2K is to fold: simplify the process of building GA/GBML related tasks, and provide a simple exploratory workbench for the evolutionary computation community to help users to interact with evolutionary processes....
In the mid 90’s I started reading Quim Monzó-–maybe a after everybody did. The funny history is that I never start reading his articles on the Sunday edition of the Avui. I just learned about him when he started showing up in a talk show at Catalunya Radio, together with Sergi Pàmies. They were hilarious and refreshingly new, something not easy back then. In the last twenty years Quim has made his way into one of the most prevalent figures in Catalan contemporary literature....
Piled Higher and Deeper the amazing fun of the PhD life. If the comic strip is not enough, Cecilia’s blog is a must read.
Here are some blogs that I usually track. Sometimes they have fascinating stuff :D Apartment therapy: Now with NYC, LA, SF, and Chicago, also a Kitchen section! Big one! Tendir: A never-ending source of home decoration ideas. Grassroots modern: A small spinoff for affordable ideas. Funfurde: The first one I tracked, it opened my eyes. Archidose: A daily dose of architecture. The Design Weblog: Some interesting entry door to design.