On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:38:54PM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote: > > Back to the sorting questions, I'd be very interested in hearing more about > the sorting program that found a new way to sort. > >
I recall Danny Hillis achieved this with a coevolutionary genetic algorithm back in the early '90s. I think it was published in one of the early ALife proceedings (probably volume 2 - the one I never managed to get a copy of :). Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
