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The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. For me, the main highlight of the issue is the interview with John H. Holland with an introduction by Lashon Booker.

John H. Holland will give a keynote speech at GECCO-2009 on July 12, 2009 (Sunday), 10:40am-11:40am. The talk is entitled Genetic Algorithms: Long Ago [Past] and Far Away [Future] and the abstract of the talk follows:

It was in the mid-50’s of the 20th century when I realized that Fisher’s fundamental theorem could be extended [...]

Later today Uday Chakraborty is giving a talk on flow-shop scheduling as part of the weekly colloquium series at our department. The talk will be given at 4:00pm in room 320 CCB at UMSL. The abstract follows:

The flow shop scheduling problem, or the problem of assignment of times to a set of jobs for processing [...]

I just found out that Hans-Paul Schwefel, one of the evolutionary computation pioneers, is going to give a talk at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) in Montreal, Canada (July 8-12, 2009). The talk will be part of the Learning from Failures in Evolutionary Computation (LFFEC) Workshop.
The title of the talk is failures [...]

GECCO-2009 deadline for submission of regular papers was extended to Wednesday, January 28, 2009!

It’s now less than a month until the deadline for paper submission for GECCO-2009, which will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.
Besides [...]

Pier Luca Lanzi created a couple of great banners of different sizes to advertise the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), sponsored by ACM SIGEVO. Feel free to use these banners on your blog or web page to advertise the next year’s GECCO conference. Please use the provided HTML code to include the banners, [...]

GECCO-2009 will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.
For more details, check out GECCO-2009 web site. Download the PDF of the GECCO-2009 Call [...]

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is out! SIGEVOlution is the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Download the newsletter at
http://www.sigevolution.org
See the original announcement at IlliGAL Blogging here.

Check out the sneak preview of the new SIGEVOlution newsletter cover at IlliGAL Blogging.