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Dr Mike Fenton, Dr Ciaran McNally, Dr Jonathan Byrne, Dr James McDermott, Prof Michael O’Neill and Dr Erik Hemberg (MIT) have won the 2017 HUMIES Bronze Award for Human Competitive Artificial Intelligence at the annual ACM GECCO 2017Conference held in Berlin this July. The award winning work focused on Innovative Truss Design using Grammatical Evolution

Dr Mike Fenton officially launched the release of PonyGE2, a Grammatical Evolution library in Python, at the GECCO 2017 EvoSoft Workshop in Berlin. The code and Wiki Documentation are available from GitHub and a paper outlining the library is available from arxiv

David Lynch and Roisin Loughran are lead authors on two papers which have been nominated for Best Paper Awards at the European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2016) and the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2016), and Prof Michael O’Neill has been awarded a Failte Ireland Conference Ambassador Award 2016 for attracting the ACM GECCO conference to Dublin.

Prof Michael O’Neill was recently interviewed for the UCD College of Business – Faculty Insight Series.

Prof Michael O’Neill features in the UCD Faces of Research video series

The UCD Science Showcase features NCRA Director Prof Michael O’Neill

Dr Miguel Nicolau places 3rd in the UCD Research Images Competition with his evolutionary art entitled “Digital Organic”

Anthony Brabazon and Michael O’Neill launch their new book and their new research group at UCD in February 2006