Spring 2026 Lectures, Playlists, and Files

 Additional Resources for Spring 2026:

Lecture Blog Posts in Chronological Order:

(unlinked lecture titles are what is tentatively planned for the future)
  • Lecture 1A (2026-01-13): Introduction to the Course, Its Policies, and Its Motivations
  • Lecture 1B (2026-01-15): The Evolutionary Approach to Engineering Design Optimization
  • Lecture 1C (2026-01-20): Population Genetics of Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Lecture 1D (2026-01-22): The Four Forces of Evolution and the Drift Barrier
  • Lecture 1E (2026-01-27): The Basic Genetic Algorithm and Its Implementation
  • Lecture 1F (2026-01-29): GA Wrap Up: Options for Selection, Crossover, Mutation, and Extensions
  • Lecture 2A (2026-02-03): Evolutionary Computing from Optimization to Programming (Mutation, CMA-ES, and Evolutionary Programming)
  • Lecture 2B (2026-02-05): Genetic Programming on Strings and Syntax Trees
  • Lecture 2C (2026-02-10): Immunocomputing: Genetic Approaches for Diverse Solution Portfolios
  • Lecture 3A (2026-02-17): Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Pareto Optimality, and Introduction to Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA's)
  • Lecture 3B (2026-02-19): Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms: Weight/Vector-Based Approaches
  • Lecture 3C/4A (2026-02-24): Pareto Ranking and Moving from Communities to Meta-Populations (DGA, PGA)
  • Lecture 4B  (2026-02-26): From DGA/PGA to Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization
  • Lecture 4C (2026-03-03): Niching Methods in Multi-Modal Optimization
  • Lecture 5A (2026-03-05): Introduction to Simulated Annealing and Entropy
  • Lecture 5B (2026-03-17): From Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) Methods Toward Optimization by Simulated Annealing
  • Lecture 5C (2026-03-19): Toward Simulated Annealing: Introduction to Boltzmann Sampling and Monte Carlo Integration
  • Lecture 5D/6A (2026-03-24): Simulated Annealing Wrap-up and Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 1 – Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
  • Lecture 6B (2026-03-26): Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 2 – Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Introduction to Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)
  • Lecture 6C (2026-03-31): Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 3 – Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
  • Lecture 7A (2026-04-02): Neural Foundations of Learning
  • Lecture 7B (2026-04-07): Feeding Forward from Neurons to Networks (SLP, RBFNN, MLP, and CNN)
  • Lecture 7C (2026-04-09): Recurrent Networks and Temporal Supervision
  • Lecture 7D (2026-04-14): Reinforcement Learning – Active Learning in Rewarding Environments
  • Lecture 7E (2026-04-16): Learning without a Teacher – Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning
  • Lecture 7F (2026-04-21): Spiking Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Computing
  • Lecture 8A+ (2026-04-23): Complex Systems Models of Computation – Cellular Automata and Neighbors

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