Twin Cities Code Camp

Jacob Good

If Darwin Could Write Code

by Jacob Good

Sun, Apr 01, 2007
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Charles Darwin had an idea: that over time, species of animals adapted; evolved. Later, in the 1950s, computer scientists thought , "Hey, why not model natural selection on a computer?" With that, genetic algorithms were born! This talk will introduce (softly, I promise) genetic algorithms... applications of genetic algorithms, and hopefully some takeaway concepts and frameworks so you can try your own.


About the Author

Jacob Good is a Ruby on Rails developer for Space150 and has been consulting / developing software in the Twin Cities for nearly 3 years. His development experience has been primarily focused on smart client development and mobile development. He dabbles in all kinds of technologies from Ruby on Rails to bioinformatics packages in Perl and of course .NET.