Algorithms are cool!

A nice heads-up post on Slashdot titled " The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms", that references "King Algorithm: An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine" in the NYT that in turn references the Google Image Labeler and Amazons Mechanical Turk (two sites/idea I think a lot of), and "Algorithms: Business by Numbers" in the economist that references TSP and other optimization algorithms as well as another article titled "Big Sums: Of greed and ants" on ACO.

Singularity Summit Audio, Gerry's Thesis Online

The audio for the Singularity Summit 2007 is available (finally). A great post on Coding Horror titled "Everything is fast for small n", a compsci lesson that is not heeded enough in my (compintell) field... Also, I found Gerry's thesis is online (well done again Gerry).

Large-Scale Heterogeneous Self-Organizing Swarms

I came across an interesting project on manipulating large self-organizing swarms of agents by Hiroki Sayama (cheers Complexity Digest). I particularly like the aspect of the software that allows blending of configurations, allowing the user to select and discriminate parameters based on exhibited behaviors.

Hiroki provides pre-print of a paper describing the work titled "Decentralized control and interactive design methods for large-scale heterogeneous self-organizing swarms"(2007).

Optimized Machine Learning and Bots

A great post on the machine learning blog about optimizing the implementation of machine learning algorithms. A review on AIGameDev of a relatively new IDE for creating bots for the game Unreal Tournament called Pogamut 2.

Artificial Intelligence is cool again!

Apparently AI is OK again (cheers intelligent machines). AI exploiting virtual worlds as a medium to learn from humans (cheers Machines Like Us).
A discussion of the book "To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles" on Coding Horror, interesting because its full of combinatorial logic problems we use as benchmarks in computational intelligence (the book on google books).