Faisal Tameesh Discusses the Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms in Robotics
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View ArticleCommentary: “Adaptive Walks on the Fitness Landscape of Music”
The evolution of musical abilities in man was an area of intense interest for Charles Darwin: in his book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex he discussed the emergence of voice and...
View ArticleArend Hintze: Scientist For Hire
Dr. Arend Hintze E-mail: hintze@nullmsu.edu CV Well, I am looking for a job – a faculty position to be exact. I am not doing this because I don’t like it here at Chris’ lab. Quite the contrary: if it...
View ArticleDiscussion: What is the responsibility of a science blog?
Earlier in July, we had the BEACON Postdoc and Students retreat covering various topics, including a session about “communicating science to the public.” From that presentation, I get the idea that...
View ArticlePaper: “Winning isn’t everything: Evolutionary stability of Zero Determinant...
Zero Determinant (ZD) strategies are a new class of probabilistic and conditional strategies that are able to unilaterally set the expected payoff of an opponent in iterated plays of the Prisoner’s...
View ArticleChris Adami and Arend Hintze’s work on ZD strategies featured in German...
“Die Zeit,” a highly respected German newspaper, featured an article about our latest PNAS submission: http://www.zeit.de/2012/36/Gefangenendilemma-Spieltheorie The journalist did a stellar job of...
View ArticleBook Review: Boldly Going Beyond Mathematics
Just before Christmas, Chris Adami has published a book review for John Holland’s new book, “Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems,” in Science magazine. In this review,...
View ArticleEvolve & Conquer: Teaching evolution via an engaging multiplayer video game
Teaching with games has been one of the buzz topics in pedagogy lately. Although video games aren’t a formal teaching method by any means, many education scientists suggest games increase intrinsic...
View ArticleIntelligence With Representations
Rodney Brooks‘s paper “Intelligence without Representations” was published in 1991. More than 5000 citations speak for the impact this paper still has on robotics and the field of Artificial...
View ArticleArend’s Job Description – The Big Question
Whenever we have guests or new people in the lab, we make a round of introductions and everyone describes their research in three sentences or less. When it comes to my turn, we have a running gag....
View ArticleComputing a football season
During winter break, Randy Olson visualized the evolution of Michigan State University’s football program using word clouds. The bigger the word is in the visualization, the more it was brought up in...
View ArticleUPDATE: Evolve & Conquer: Teaching evolution via an engaging video game
Awhile ago, we unveiled the early versions of Evolve & Conquer, a video game for teaching evolution that we’ve been developing in-lab. We’ve come a long way since then, and we decided that it’s...
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