Finally, we decided to go up to Chicago for the CAAFC tournament. Long, long time since the last one I went. Now at CAAFC you can pre-register and check the competition results in Ask Fred. Here you can find the link to the tournament we went. The mixed foil event that I took part in was won by Peter Habala. I could sit for ever watching his fluent fencing. It seems so natural and easy… ...
The 2006 José Luís Balcazar Open for novice fencers at The Point Fencing club took place on Saturday, January 28th, 2006. The final top four was occupied by: Cece Borries (1st place) Judy Vancleeff (2nd place) Daniel Downey (3rd place) Stephanie Helle (3rd place) These are some of the pictures of the fencers and people in the meeting. ...
In the last decade, multimedia and scientific applications have pushed CPU manufactures to include native support for vector instruction sets. This software presents how to implement efficient condition encoding and fast rule matching strategies using vector instructions. The paper elaborates on Altivec (PowerPC G4 and G5) and SSE2 (Intel P4/Xeon and AMD Opteron) instruction sets producing speedups beyond ninety times when compared to non-vectorized implementations. The code of this post was used to run the experiments described in the IlliGAL 2006001 technical report “Fast Rule Matching for Learning Classifier Systems via Vector Instructions” by Xavier Llorà and Kumara Sastry. The code for fast rule matching can be downloaded here. Please read the README file for further details and instructions. The code is distributed under GPL license. ...
The next tournament is an Open tournament at CAAFC on Sunday 29th of January. Epee registration closes at 9:00am, foil at 11:30am, and sabre at 1:3opm. More information can be found at the schedule tab and competition calendar of CAAFC web site.
The submissions deadline for the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference to be held July 8-12, 2006 (Saturday-Wednesday) in Seattle, WA has been extended to February 1.