Monthly Archives: August 2011

BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the weakest – when doing poorly does best

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Joshua Nahum. “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer upon his reading of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to describe the … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring fitness in the Long Term Evolution Experiment

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Mike Wiser. If there’s one thing you can really depend on about life, it’s that it’s constantly changing. Many of us learned in our biology classes … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Hemichordate Global Biodiversity and Evolution

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Charlotte Konikoff. Research in the Swalla lab broadly focuses on elucidating chordate origins and evolution. If you are reading this, you are a chordate. More specifically, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Bidding Strategy in Learning Classifier Systems Using Loan and Niching GA

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by North Carolina A&T State University graduate student Abrham Workineh. Nature has given some degree of inherent intelligence to living things.  One definition of  intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, … Continue reading →

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Final 2011 Congress Schedule

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Brian Baer

See the final version of the agenda for the 2011 BEACON congress: PDF File

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