FYI: Comp Ling/Online Course, LOT Winter School

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Linda Krute

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The purpose of this posting is to announce that in January 2000, Professor David E. Goldberg is offering his course GE 485, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (based on the Addison-Wesley, 1989, book of the same name) via the Internet. CD-Rom versions will be sent to registered students who have bandwidth problems and cannot access the video lectures. The course web site, containing a course syllabus, introductory information, and a free 50-minute preview lecture are available on line a http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/OCEE/webcourses/ge485/ The free lecture entitled Darwin-in-a-Box: How Computers are Catching Criminals, Designing Jets, and Programming Computers previews the instructor's lecture style and the course's delivery technology. The course may be taken for credit or as a visitor/auditor through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or the National Technological University (NTU). NTU students should contact their NTU site coordinator for more information. Other interested parties should contact Linda Krute at l-krute@uiuc.edu or 1-800-252-1360, extension 36634 for further information. Dear all, The deadline for enrollment in the Winter School of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT), to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, January 10-21, has been extended to DECEMBER 6. The deadline for hotel reservation remains December 3. You can find information about the courses, as well as on-line forms for enrollment and lodging, on: http://wwwlot.let.uu.nl/ws2000.html - ------------------------------------------------------------ LOT Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics Trans 10 NL - 3512 JK Utrech Phone: +31 30 2536006 Fax: +31 30 2536000 - ------------------------------------------------------------