Monthly Archives: October 2011

BEACON Researchers at Work: Preventing accidents with evolutionary computation

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Andres Ramirez. Recently, I found myself driving on the wrong side of the road. No, I did not fall asleep. I drove through some parts of New Zealand, … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Video game control with evolved neural networks

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by UT Austin graduate student Jacob Schrum. I often find myself running wildly through the darkened corridors of some decommissioned mining facility, rocket launcher in hand, leaping madly about the hostile … Continue reading

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Announcing BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program

Interested in joining BEACON as a postdoc? BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program BEACON is an NSF Science and Technology Center headquartered at Michigan State University with partners at North Carolina A&T State University, University of Idaho, University of Texas at … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Hyena Poop Patrol

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Andy Booms. For the past few months I’ve been searching Kenyan protected areas for spotted hyenas and their poop, which I collect. Each time I arrive at a … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving digital organisms in physically realistic environments

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU undergraduate student Jacob Walker. In the fall of my freshman year of college I joined a laboratory that would define my undergraduate career. I became an assistant for the Evolving … Continue reading

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