Presentations

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. ...

On May 26th I gave a seminar about Meandre’s basics at the Computer Science department at University of Illinois . The talk was part of the Cloud Computing Seminars. I merged together slides I have been using to talk about Meandre, and tried to give it an easy to grasp overview flavor. You view them below.

David E. Goldberg has posted a serie of three short talks about how to promote creative interdisciplinary work in places where highly disciplinary work is conducted. This talks are part of the iFoundry initiative at the University of Illinois. You may find the sequence below and the slides on SlideShare. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-ASQ00pGA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwt4hzo857Q httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqX-2ttcHbM

Yup, never happened to me before. In John Koza’s words: Hat Trick, best paper in EDA track and two Bronze medals in the HUMIES competition. I just think that I was lucky and blessed to have the pleasure to work with such great people. It would not have happened if it wasn’t for them. Below you can find some of the presentations for the above Hat Trick, as well as some other work I presented on genetics-based machine learning. ...

This presentation covers a general overview of the goals, origins, reasearch and tools currently available for the DISCUS project. For more information please visit the DISCUS project website. A follow up presentation with further details is also available here.