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On June 2013, I roamed the streets of Girona at night. It started feeling as an ephemeral compulsive need, a needed that could be easily tamed. Its recurrent nature ruled otherwise. I just kept going out at night. I just kept snapping away. I just kept walking over the old cobblestones. I just could not shake the itch. The transmutation of the eye kept charming me back. On June 2013, I roamed the streets of Girona at night. [pe2-gallery album=“http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/101892163699515371535/albumid/5891687846951531553?alt=rss&hl=en_US&kind=photo” ] ...

Is that time of year. Rushing to get your papers ready for GECCO 2012? Here are some good news. The deadline has been pushed back to January 27 to help those last minute pushes :). You can find more infomaion at the conference website http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/ or you can follow GECCO 2012 updatse on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/gecco_2012), Google+ (+GECCO http://goo.gl/F4ZTM), or Facebook (http://goo.gl/IqEbW).

It has been a while since the last face lift to this blog. No, I was not planning any major revamp, but a simple one. Since it was released, I had the little green ShareThis button hanging around. I just wanted to balance a bit the elements on the page. I decided to reposition the button on the top right of the excerpts and on the post themselves. While doing the repositioning I decided to simplify a bit its functionality and replace the button with something a bit lighter and still with purpose. After giving it a bit of a thought I replaced it with Google’s +1 button for publishers. It looks a little best balanced and it does not clutter the layout. You can find more information on how to add the +1 button to your site can be found at the +1 button page for webmasters. ...

I just got a note from Pier Luca Lanzi about some raw number on this year’s GECCO 2011 conference. The numbers are stagering. I will start with the numbers from the previous editions since GECCO become an ACM conference, just to build up suspense. The numbers of paper submissions to the main conference for the previous editions are listed below. Year Submissions 2006 446 2007 577 2008 451 2009 531 2010 373 And after this prelude, here comes the number of submission for this year: 686. Yes you read it correctly 686 papers submitted to the conference. The number just brakes the record of submissions since GECCO joined ACM. 686 papers is 109 papers more than the previous 2007 record. But, do you want to know what is even better than that? That you can still participate by submitting workshop and late breaking papers. Do you want to learn more about it, just check the conference calendar. ...

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) is now inviting paper submissions. GECCO 2011 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from July 12th till July 16th. The full text of the call for paper can be found here. More information about GECCO 2011 can be found on the conference website, Twitter, and Facebook. The paper submission deadline is January 26, 2011.