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The program for the GECCO-2008 workshop Optimization by Building and Using Probabilitist Models (OBUPM-2008) is now available here.
I think we have a really good set of speakers and some very diverse topics. It should be very interesting, I hope to see you in Atlanta!

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.

Adam Ierymenko of the GreyThumb.Blog made an interesting post on Rotifers. Rotifers are small organisms living in fresh water lakes. Rotifers are asexual, but they have a strange ability that may be seen as a substitute for recombination—they can steal genetic material from other living organisms, such fungi, bacteria, and plants.
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