The first lecture of the doctoral course “Genetic Algorithms and Other Evolutionary Approaches” is postponed. The course will begin Friday June 22nd.

The next lecture of Machine Learning and Data Mining course is postponed to Thursday 14th, at the usual time. I wish to remind the students who are involved in the project that today is the deadline for the delivery of the project report.

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. The issue features:

• EC Practitioners: Results of the First Survey
  by Gregory S. Hornby & Tina Yu
• Interactive Music Composition, by Ying-ping Chen
• GECCO-2007 Highlights
  • Best Papers Nominees
  • The Competitions
  • The Workshops
  • The Tutorials
• announcements
• dissertation corner
• forthcoming papers
• calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Pier Luca Lanzi (EIC)

New slides on Support Vector Machines are available here.

I updated the slides on mining data streams. The version I used for the lecture on May 31st are now online.

New slides on the mining of text and web data are available here and also on slideshare.