{"id":1631,"date":"2018-07-31T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:23:13","slug":"real-wins-big-at-gecco-and-alife-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/2018\/07\/31\/real-wins-big-at-gecco-and-alife-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL wins big at GECCO and ALife 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>REAL wins big at GECCO and ALife 2018<\/h1>\n<p>Members of the REAL Lab presented a number of works at this year&#8217;s editions of the GECCO and ALife conferences and came home with a handful of awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best student paper award, 2018 Conference on Artificial Life<\/strong>, for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/frank-veenstra\/\">Frank Veenstra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/pablo-gonzalez-de-prado-salas\/\">Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez de Prado Salas<\/a>, Josh Bongard, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/kasper-stoy\/\">Kasper St\u00f8y<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/sebastian-risi\/\">Sebastian Risi<\/a>: Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best paper award in the DETA+THEORY+GECH track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018)<\/strong>. for Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam M. Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/sebastian-risi\/\">Sebastian Risi<\/a>: Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distinguished Young Investigator award 2018 from the International Society for Artificial Life<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/sebastian-risi\/\">Sebastian Risi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the following were presented at GECCO by members of the lab:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evolution of Fin Undulation on a Physical Knifefish-inspired Soft Robot<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/frank-veenstra\/\">Frank Veenstra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/jonas-jorgensen\/\">Jonas J\u00f8rgensen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/sebastian-risi\/\">Sebastian Risi<\/a><br \/>\nTo appear in: Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2018). New York, NY: ACM (8 pages).<\/li>\n<li>Towards an experiment on perception of affective music generation using MetaCompose<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/former-members\/marco-scirea\/\">Marco Scirea<\/a>, Peter Eklund, Julian Togelius, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/sebastian-risi\/\">Sebastian Risi<\/a><br \/>\nTo appear in: Companion to the Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO Companion 2018). New York, NY: ACM (2 pages).<\/li>\n<li>Clustering sensory inputs using NeuroEvolution of augmenting topologies<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/people\/david-kadish\/\">David Kadish<\/a><br \/>\nTo appear in: Companion to the Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO Companion 2018). New York, NY: ACM (2 pages).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REAL wins big at GECCO and ALife 2018 Members of the REAL Lab presented a number of works at this year&#8217;s editions of the GECCO and ALife conferences and came home with a handful of awards: Best student paper award, 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, for Frank Veenstra, Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez de Prado Salas, Josh Bongard, Kasper St\u00f8y and Sebastian Risi: Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability. Best paper award in the DETA+THEORY+GECH track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018). for Vanessa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-and-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/real\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}