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Today I finished migrating the LCS & GBML Central site from its original URL (http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu) to a more permanent and stable home located at http://gbml.org. The original site is already currently redirecting the trafic to the new site, and it will be doing so for a while to help people transition and update bookmarks and feed readers. I have introduced a few changes to the functionality of the original site. Functional changes can be mostly summarized by (1) dropping the forums section and (2) closing comments on posts and pages. Both functionalities, rarely used in their current form, have been replaced by a simpler public embedded Wave reachable at http://gbml.org/wave. The goal, provide people in the LCS & GBML community a simpler way to discuss, share, and hang out. About the feeds being aggregated, I have revised the list and added the feeds now available of the table of contents from ...

I just finished committing the last changes to Crochet and tagged version 0.1.4vcli now publicly available on GitHub (http://github.com/xllora/Crochet). Also feel free to visit the issues page in case you run into question/problems/bugs. Motivation Crochet is a light weight web framework oriented to rapid prototyping of REST APIs. If you are looking for a Rails like framework written in Scala, please take a look at Lift at http://liftweb.net/ instead. Crochet targets quick prototyping of REST APIs relying on the flexibility of the Scala language. The initial ideas for Crochet were inspired while reading Gabriele Renzi post on creating the STEP picoframework with Scala and the need for quickly prototyping APIs for pilot projects. Crochet also provides mechanisms to hide repetitive tasks involved with default responses and authentication/authorization piggybacking on the mechanics provided by application servers. ...

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.

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.

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. ...