Book Reviews
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Monday, October 7, 2002
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Kramnik beats machine in game two: "World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik drew first blood by defeating the computer program Deep Fritz in game two of the "Brains in Bahrain" tie on Sunday." [Google Technology News]
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Man and machine draw first chess game: "The reigning human chess champion, Vladimir Kramnik, and the newest computer champ, Deep Fritz, drew their first game here Friday in what is being billed as the successor match to Gary Kasparov's loss to Deep Blue." [Google Technology News]
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1Mb/s through mud: "The DoE has announced a high-speed data-transfer that runs on drillpipe, through "a 4-inch diameter steel pipe immersed in electrically conductive mud at pressures up to 1000 atmospheres, temperatures up to 150 deg C, and with vibrational accelerations of hundreds of g's." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Implementing GA (genetic algorithms) -- Comment()
Brett Morgan's Zilla points to Cultured Perl and doing GA in perl. I have programmed genetic algorithms in Fortran 90/95 and Matlab, but Perl seems a strange choice, because GAs are quite cpu-intensive applications. But why not? An implementation of the so-called differential evolution algorithm in Fortran 90/95 is published in our textbook on Fortran 90/95. This book is available in Finnish in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. My lecture on Modeling and Optimization last Friday at the Helsinki University of Technology contained a lot of GA-related examples and case studies. The slides are available in PDF format.
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