Monthly Archives: October 2011

BEACON Researchers at Work: Preventing accidents with evolutionary computation

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

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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TED Talk: Christoph Adami – Finding life we can’t imagine

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

Watch the new TED talk by BEACON’s Chris Adami!

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolutionary computation to enhance breast tumor recognition in microwave images

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Blair D. Fleet. In 2010, I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. During a college visit for graduate school, I became introduced to … Continue reading →

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