2004 HUMIES

$5,000 in PRIZES AT

THE 1^st ANNUAL (2004) “HUMIES” AWARDS

FOR HUMAN-COMPETITIVE RESULTS

PRODUCED BY GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

HELD AT THE

GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO)

IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Last updated August 2, 2009

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In 2004, entries were solicited for awards totaling $5,000 for human-competitive results that were produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation and that were published in the open literature between July 1, 2003 and the deadline for submissions (June 23, 2004). The publication could be a GECCO paper (i.e., regular paper, poster paper, or late-breaking paper) or a paper published elsewhere in the open literature (e.g., another conference, a journal, technical report, thesis, book, book chapter) or a paper that has received final acceptance and is “in press.” Click here for 2004 Call For Entries.

In 2004, there were 11 entries. The entries employed genetic algorithms (GA), genetic programming (GP), or genetic learning classifier systems (LCS). On June 27, 2004, a session was held at the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) in Seattle that heard 11 short presentations of the various results that were claimed to be “human-competitive” according to the eight specified criteria.

After the 11 presentations, the 2004 judging committee met and considered all the entries. The committee judged 6 of the 11 results to be “human-competitive.” The judging committee recognized the following levels of achievement: Gold, Silver, and Bronze (for the 6 entries judged to be “human-competitive”) and Merit and Honorable Mention (for the remaining entries). The judging committee awarded prizes totaling $5,000 for the 6 entries judged to be “human-competitive” and an additional $500 to other 5 entries. The prizes were awarded at the plenary sessions on Wednesday June 30, 2004 at the GECCO-2004 conference in Seattle.

Winners of 2004 “Humies” Awards — 6 “Human-Competitive” Results

The judging committee judged the following 6 entries to be “human-competitive” and awarded prizes as follows.

Prize	Authors	Paper	Statement of why result is human-competitive	Presentation	Algorithm type
$1500 — Gold	Jason D. Lohn Gregory S. Hornby Derek S. Linden NASA Ames Research Center	An Evolved Antenna for Deployment on NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission	Statement	Slides (11 MB)	GP
$1500 — Gold	Lee Spector Hampshire College	Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach	Statement	Slides	GP
$500 — Silver	Alex Fukunaga UCLA	Evolving Local Search Heuristics for SAT Using Genetic Programming	Statement	Slides	GP
$500 — Silver	Hod Lipson Cornell University	How to Draw a Straight Line Using a GP: Benchmarking Evolutionary Design Against 19th Century Kinematic Synthesis	Statement	Slides (6 MB)	GP
$500 — Silver	Bijan KHosraviani Raymond E. Levitt John R. Koza Stanford University	Organization Design Optimization Using Genetic Programming	Statement	Slides Additional slides	GP
$500 — Bronze	Adrian Stoica Ricardo Zebulum Didier Keymeulen Michael Ian Ferguson Vu Duong Xin Guo JPL	Taking evolutionary circuit design from experimentation to implementation: some useful techniques and a silicon demonstration	Statement	Slides	GA

5 Additional Awards

Prize	Authors	Paper	Statement of why result is human-competitive	Presentation	Algorithm type
$200 — Merit	Brian Lam RMIT University	Discovery of Human-Competitive Image Texture Feature Programs Using Genetic programming	Statement	Slides	GP
$200 — Merit	Lukas Sekanina Brno University of Technology	Novel image filters implemented in hardware	Statement	Slides	CGP
$100 — Honorable Mention	Ju Hui Li Nanyang Technological University	Evolvable Fuzzy Hardware for Real-Time Embedded Control for Packet-Switching	Statement	Slides	GA
$100 — Honorable Mention	Luis Miramontes Hercog Terence C.Fogarty South Bank University	Social simulation using a Multi-Agent Model based on Classifier Systems: The Emergence of Vacillating Behaviour in the ``El Farol'' Bar Problem	Statement	No presentation	CS
$100 — Honorable Mention	Hideyuki Takagi Kyushu University	Applicability of Interactive Evolutionary Computation to Mind Measurement	Statement	No presentation	IEC

Left to right, Alex Fukunaga (one of the winners of the 2004 awards for Human-Competitive Results at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Seattle on June 30, 2004, and John Koza

Judging Committee

The 2004 judging committee consisted of

· Wolfgang Banzhaf

· David Goldberg

· Erik Goodman

· Riccardo Poli

11 Entries in 2004

Authors	Paper	Statement of why result is human-competitive
Alex Fukunaga UCLA	Evolving Local Search Heuristics for SAT Using Genetic Programming	Statement
Luis Miramontes Hercog Terence C.Fogarty South Bank University	Social simulation using a Multi-Agent Model based on Classifier Systems: The Emergence of Vacillating Behaviour in the ``El Farol'' Bar Problem	Statement
Bijan KHosraviani Raymond E. Levitt John R. Koza Stanford University	Organization Design Optimization Using Genetic Programming	Statement
Brian Lam RMIT University	Discovery of Human-Competitive Image Texture Feature Programs Using Genetic programming	Statement
Ju Hui Li Nanyang Technological University	Evolvable Fuzzy Hardware for Real-Time Embedded Control for Packet-Switching	Statement
Hod Lipson Cornell University	How to Draw a Straight Line Using a GP: Benchmarking Evolutionary Design Against 19th Century Kinematic Synthesis	Statement
Jason D. Lohn Gregory S. Hornby Derek S. Linden NASA Ames Research Center	An Evolved Antenna for Deployment on NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission	Statement
Lukas Sekanina Brno University of Technology	Novel image filters implemented in hardware	Statement
Lee Spector Hampshire College	Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach	Statement
Adrian Stoica Ricardo Zebulum Didier Keymeulen Michael Ian Ferguson Vu Duong Xin Guo JPL	Taking evolutionary circuit design from experimentation to implementation: some useful techniques and a silicon demonstration	Statement
Hideyuki Takagi Kyushu University	Applicability of Interactive Evolutionary Computation to Mind Measurement	Statement

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