Tag Archives: Computer Science

Evolutionary Computation Experts Video Collection

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Joel Slade

This blog post is by Risto Miikkulainen [1,2], Paul Jarratt [2], and Andrew Turner [2] from (1) The University of Texas at Austin and (2) Sentient Technologies Given recent advances in evolutionary computation technology, available computational power, and opportunities for AI in … Continue reading →

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Evolution is the New Deep Learning

Posted on March 21, 2018 by hageyt
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Avida-ED Summer Workshop

Posted on March 27, 2017 by hageyt

This summer we will be holding two workshops on the use of Avida-ED; one at the University of Washington from June 21-23, and one at Michigan State University from July 27-29.  Avida-ED is a free, web-based program designed to teach … Continue reading →

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Evolving Evacuation Plans for Urban Areas

Posted on February 5, 2017 by hageyt

This post is written by UI grad student Keith Drew The team at University of Idaho currently consists of four people, Dr. Robert B. Heckendorn, Keith Drew, Homaja Marisetty, and Madhav Pandey. Our team also includes researchers at the Michigan State … Continue reading →

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Charles Ofria named one of the 2017 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty

Posted on February 5, 2017 by hageyt

We are proud to congratulate BEACON’s Deputy Director Charles Ofria for being named a 2017 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award winner. Charles Ofria is recognized internationally for his research at the interface of computer science and evolutionary biology. He … Continue reading →

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BEACON now funds video games?

Posted on August 9, 2016 by hageyt

This is a repost from Terry Soule (Computer Science, UI) and Barrie Robison (Biological Sciences, UI) Also visit Telliamed Revisited (Richard Lenski’s blog) for another write-up.  Hello BEACONites, Thanks to BEACON’s support Polymorphic Games has created the evolutionary video game Darwin’s Demons, and placed it … Continue reading →

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4th Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin

Posted on May 31, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by University of Texas at Austin grad student Rayna Harris On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics hosted the 4th Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin. … Continue reading →

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Evolving Deep Neural Networks

Posted on May 10, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin grad student Jason Liang Deep learning has revolutionized the field of machine learning in many ways. From achieving state-of-the-art results in many benchmarks and competitions to effectively exploiting the computational power of the cloud, … Continue reading →

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Mass Extinctions, Evolution, and…. Robots?

Posted on May 3, 2016 by hageyt

Check out this great video produced by the UT Alumni Association talking about research by BEACONites Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen at UT Austin. Lehman and Miikkulainen published an awesome paper in PLOS ONE looking at evolution after a mass extinction.  I, for one, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Providing computational methods for biological research

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research scientist Dennis Wylie. I’ve always been intrigued by the combination of seemingly incongruous things. As a child I loved stories about strange chimerical creatures … Continue reading →

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