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

Deadline extended for special issue on Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining

The deadline for the special issue on Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining to be published by Springer’s Memetic Computing Journal has been extended till May 31, 2009. More information can be found in this post at LCS & GBML Central.

Apr 7, 2009 · 1 min · 41 words · Xavier Llorà

LCSweb + GBML blog = LCS & GBML Central

LCSweb was designed to allow researchers and those seeking to use Learning Classifier Systems within applications access to material on LCS and discussion between members of the LCS community. The site served this community since its was started by Alwyn Barry in 1997. Enhanced and maintained later by Jan Drugowitsch, LCSweb became a valuable community resource. The site was completely community-driven and allowed members to contribute to the content of the site and keeping it up to date. Later on in 2005, I started “LCS and other GBML” Blog to cover a gap providing information information regarding the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS), the collection of LCS Books available, and GBML related news. Some of you may have realized that after Jan’s move to Rochester and Alwyn’s retirement from research activities, LCSweb has vanished. Will Browne took on himself to take LCSweb to Reading, but technical circumstances have made that move rocky despite his best efforts. Jan and Will however still have a local copy of LCSweb contents. After talking to Jan and Will, I proposed to merge LCSweb with the LCS and other GBML blog, and host the new site at NCSA where dedicated resources has been made available. Jan and Will agreed with the idea. We are happy to announce that the merged site (still under the update cycle) can be reached at http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu. More information about the process can be found here or at there LCS & GBML Central site. ...

Mar 27, 2009 · 2 min · 245 words · Xavier Llorà

GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline extended till January 28

Martin Pelikan just posted on the MEDAL and IlliGAL blogs that the GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline has been extended till January 28. Always, great news to finish polishing last minute changes :D It seems that the website is not yet updated, neither emails sent to the usual mailing lists. Just a matter or time I guess ;) And since I am talking about GECCO 2009, you may also want to take a look at the competitions announcement video that Pier Luca Lanzi put together below. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cbgBOkn-s ...

Jan 9, 2009 · 1 min · 87 words · Xavier Llorà

Promoting creative interdisciplinary in a disciplinary world

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

Jan 7, 2009 · 1 min · 53 words · Xavier Llorà