Prof. León Chua visited Barcelona to preside over the examining committee of one of our former members and current collaborators, Giovanni Pazienza. On this visit, he had time to share his main discovery with us in the talk: “Memristor: 37 years later”.
Through an unusual presentation, overhead transparencies, amusing jokes, technological explanations hidden in [...]

Some time ago I was told about the project Wolfram|Alpha by the creator of Mathematica and the author of a new kind of science (NKS), Stephen Wolfram. This project aims at going beyond the typical process of search engines by proposing a system that computes the answers of user questions. That is, instead of [...]

The previous years exams are now on-line. Spring 2007 exams are avaibale here. Spring 2008 exams are available here.

What does the equation ZigBee + Cars = ZigBeeCars mean?
On March 19, ZigBeeCars will be presented in the Saló de l’ensenyament in view of promoting the engineering at La Salle. In a space of 35 square meters, offered by the EnginyCat program of the Generalitat de Catalunya, a spectacular racetrack will allow the [...]

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of [...]

My talk at HollandFest09 is here or in the viewer below.

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Evolutionary Computation, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 131-134, Spring 2009.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The special session on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning in the 4th Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2009) aims at bringing together researchers in Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning to discuss new trends for the research in the field.
This special session intends to be a forum for researchers to [...]

Two weeks ago, one of the most important researchers in evolutionary computation visited the GRSI. After 25 years of an intense and extensive research on genetic algorithms, our guest, Prof. David E. Goldberg, focuses his interest on a new field, the entrepreneurship, where he displays his creativity to explore which non-technical skills an [...]

Today, Núria Macià  and Rubén Nicolàs, two of the most promising PhD students in our lab, have set and explained the basis of the work that will result, with no doubt,  in two fantastic PhD thesis in little time. Please, join me in congratulating both Rubén and Núria as well as their supervisors Elisabet Golobardes and [...]