Semester A, 2001-2002

Lecturer: Dr. Moshe Sipper

Course Description

Administrative Details

• Course reference: 202-1-5611.
• Web: www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/courses/seminar02a/.
• Prerequisite: The course is intended for third-year and graduate (MSc) students.
• Credits: 2.
• Time: Tuesday 10:10-11:40 (no break!).
• Place: Building 28, Room 105.
• Grade:
  • 70%: Lecture.
  • 30%: Small software project.
• Notes:
  • Attendance in all talks is obligatory!
  • If (#students < #lectures) { Some/All students will lecture twice. }
  • If (#students > #lectures) { Some/All lectures will be delivered in pairs. }

List of Talks

• Tuesday, October 23: Introduction to Bio-Inspired Computing + Composition of Speaker List. Speaker: Moshe Sipper.
• Tuesday, October 30: Genetic Algorithms: Introduction. Speaker: Barak Naveh. (5-point bonus)
• Tuesday, November 6: No class (strike).
• Tuesday, November 13: No class (strike).
• Tuesday, November 20: No class (strike).
• Tuesday, November 27: No class (strike).
• Tuesday, December 4: Artificial Neural Networks. Speaker: Mike Averbuch. (3-point bonus)
• Tuesday, December 11:Talk cancelled due to illness.
• Tuesday, December 18: Genetic Programming: Introduction. Speaker: Hagit Kraus.
• Tuesday, December 25: Genetic Programming: Applications. Speaker: Sivan Tuvi.
• Tuesday, January 1: Cellular Programming. Speaker: Yochai Twito.
• Tuesday, January 8: Coevolutionary Algorithms. Speaker: Maxim Shklar.
• Tuesday, January 15: Ant Algorithms. Speaker: Sergei Tatarenko.
• Tuesday, January 22: Genetic Algorithms: Applications. Speaker: Iris Sasson. Plus mini-talk (11:40-12:05): DNA Computing, by Avivit Eitan.
• Tuesday, January 29: Evolutionary Robotics. Speaker: Avivit Eitan. Plus mini-talk (11:40-12:05): Tierra, by Barak Naveh.
• [ Artificial Self-Replication. Speaker: TBD. ]