ICPR 2010 – Contest: Extended Deadline May, 26

Call for Contest Participation – Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest (ICPR 2010)
Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants on targeted-complexity [...]

ICPR 2010 – Contest

Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants may contribute to enrich our understanding of the behavior of machine learning and open further research lines. Contest participants are allowed to [...]

GECCO 2010

2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

On our way toward the engineer of the future

How to design the engineer of the future was the object of the workshop EF2009, which was held on November 12 at La Salle, in Barcelona.
The two keynotes given by Ms. Lueny Morell, How can engineering education address the challenges of the 21st century?, and Prof. David E. Goldberg, The missing basics: What engineers don’t [...]

fPET 2010

2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology

ICPR 2010

20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Jaywalking

Jaywalking is the term that popularly coins the fact of a pedestrian crossing the street ignoring the traffic lights. It is an unlawful action in many countries and is punished in some states. However, in New York, police are pretty permissive and just jaywalkers whose behavior goes beyond a non-written rule are warned.
In addition, jaywalking [...]

AI: Reality or fiction?

It seems that the artificial intelligence related in science fiction is not as far from reality as we used to think. The main character of the film AI, a little boy belonging to a robot series capable of emulating human behavior, is now a model to reach in current scientific projects, which aim at providing [...]

GECCO 2009: A binary pre-teenager

GECCO, one of the most relevant conferences on evolutionary computation, starts its 10th edition today in Montréal (Canada). The organization committee has prepared a lot of surprises within a tight agenda. From July 8 to July 12, full days of tutorials, workshops, poster sessions, talks, competitions, awards, the birthday, and the star talk by John [...]

Independence Day

New York (USA)

Morning saw the City calm after eleven days of rains. This sunny day allowed people to have picnics and enjoy a peaceful holiday. At eight, however, things got hectic. The roofs of the buildings welcomed the most impatient onlookers. Neighbor communities began the preparations with the following ingredients: barbecues, beers, and joy. The [...]