Past EPlex News Items

3/28/08: "Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Drum Tracks for Existing Songs ,"  by Amy K. Hoover, Michael P. Rosario, and Kenneth O. Stanley won the Best Paper Award at the Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008).

11/8/07: EPlex releases Dance Evolution, which allows you to evolve dancers to any MIDI song interactively.

7/23/07: Our video on Dance Evolution won the Best Student Video Award at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition.   Congratulations to Jeff Balogh, Greg Dubbin, and Michael Do, who worked on the project as undergraduate machine learning students! The Dance Evolution program, which evolves novel dance moves, will be released at a future date.

4/11/07: HyperNEAT C++ software for evolving large-scale neural networks released.  Available in the software section. 

4/5/07: NEAT Particles software for interactively evolving particle systems released.  Available in the software section. 

3/27/07: GECCO publications on the new HyperNEAT algorithm (using connective CPPNs to create neural networks) are available here.

3/27/07: New journal paper posted: "Compositional Pattern Producing Networks: A Novel Abstraction of Development," by Kenneth O. Stanley.

3/25/07:  "A Novel Generative Encoding for Exploiting Neural Network Sensor and Output Geometry", by David. B. D'Ambrosio and Kenneth O. Stanley is nominated for Best Paper Award in Generative and Developmental Systems.