NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

NIGEL 2006 talks is available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Martin Butz review reviews the state of the union of XCS, where as Alwyn Barry introduces the theoretical framework for LCS that he and Jan Drugowitsch worked on.

May 19, 2009 · 1 min · 40 words · Xavier Llorà

LCS & GBML Central back to production

LCS & GBML Central exploit has been fixed. The site is restored and back to fully functional. Please do not hesitate to ping me if you see something missing.

May 14, 2009 · 1 min · 29 words · Xavier Llorà

LCS & GBML Central under inspection

It is very common that NCSA machines get continual attacks over the net. Today I got a note from the security team that LCS & GBML Central may have been compromised. We are looking into it. As a precaution the automatic measures has been fired, that means, that the box is currently unroutable. Hope it can be fixed soon. I’ll keep you posted about the progress.

May 13, 2009 · 1 min · 66 words · Xavier Llorà

NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker

The second weekly release of NIGEL 2006 talks is available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Dipankar Dasgupta reviews the negative selection algorithm, where as Lashon Booker travels in time to the past and future of learning classifier systems.

May 11, 2009 · 1 min · 40 words · Xavier Llorà

Transcoding NIGEL 2006 videos

Last week Pier Luca Lanzi was visiting IlliGAL. Yesterday, before he left for Chicago, we went for one last brunch. He mentioned that he liked a lot the videos we shot during NIGEL 2006. Thinking about it we agreed would be useful to recover the videos and upload them into some of the usual video sharing site suspects. Currently they are hosted, for long term storage purposes, at NCSA’s web archive. I spent sometime retrieving them from the archive (they are pretty fat and encoded in wmv) and I stated transcoding it in m4a. My plan? Make them available via Vimeo and LCS & GBML Central. Also, I will be uploading the presentation slides to SlideShare and also make them available via LCS & GBML Central. ...

May 4, 2009 · 1 min · 126 words · Xavier Llorà