Three awards, including top prize, were won at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO), that took place recently (7-11 July) in Portland, USA.
Natalio Krasnogor, Jon Garibaldi and postdoc Pawel Widera won the Gold medal at the 7th edition of the Humies awards for human-competitive results for their work in evolving energy functions for protein structure prediction using genetic programming. The HUMIES prizes award scientific computational results that are human-competitive and that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation.
At the same conference, Maria Franco, a Phd student jointly supervised by Jaume Bacardit and Natalio Krasnogor, won a best paper award for their work "Speeding Up the Evaluation of Evolutionary Learning Systems using GPGPUs".
Natalio Krasnogor's paper "A Memetic Algorithm with Self-Adaptive Local Search: TSP as a Case Study"co-authored with Jim Smith (his PhD supervisor), was recognised, 10 years after its publication, as the most influential and impactful paper from those that appeared in this conference 10 years ago.
For more information please see: http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010/
Posted on Tuesday 28th February 2012