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Monthly Archives: November 2014
BEACON Researchers at Work: Engineering life
This week’s blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Leandra Brettner. All living organisms share a universal programming language—DNA. Long strings of unit molecules A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s dictate the unique traits of each individual, but the … Continue reading
Meet the 2014 BEACON Distinguished Postdocs, Chandra Jack and Will Soto
This year, BEACON was fortunate to be able to appoint TWO new Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows. Meet Chandra Jack and Will Soto! Chandra Jack Chandra started working in the Strassmann-Queller lab at Rice University as an undergraduate in the summer after … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolution to update old software
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Erik Fredericks. His first BEACON blog post is here. Engineers in industry are often given the somewhat daunting task of updating legacy software systems. Consider, for a … Continue reading
BEACON Announces Search for the John R. Koza Endowed Chair in Genetic Programming
A generous gift to BEACON and MSU by Dr. John R. Koza, the acknowledged founder of the field of genetic programming and author of four books on that subject, has endowed this chair, aimed at recruiting one of the leaders … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Improving Search Quality in Genetic Programming
This week’s BEACON Researcher at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Armand Burks. About Me As a young “army brat,” I was always fascinated with learning how things worked. Trying to figure out how my toys worked, I … Continue reading