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Location Change for This Meeting 
Tenley-Friendship Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
4450 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
(southwest corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street, NW) 
Metrorail: Tenleytown-AU Station on Red Line is diagonally across the street 
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Genetic algorithms and genetic programming (telling computers what
needs to be done instead of how to do it) are species of artificial
intelligence developed by academics from MIT, Stanford, and around the
world over the last 30 years. Is Darwinian programming, in which
computer programs have sex, mutate, and evolve to replace human
programmers, breaking out of academia? Does the field have profitable
business applications? Could it be the next disruptive technology?

Now with funding sources at the Department of Defense, many Web sites,
and popular books featuring how-to-do-it tutorials, genetic
programming may be poised to become a "next big thing." Genetic
programmers have cited corporate data mining, computer graphics,
electrical engineering, financial optimization, and networking as
areas of commercial viability.

This presentation will review the history of genetic programming (as
told in the most recent toe-breaker from John Koza and coauthors,
Genetic Programming III), outline the state of the art of
genetic programming (with references to sources of additional
information), and discuss technology transfer issues and divergent
opinions about the possibilities for the development of profitable
business applications.

The big question for entrepreneurs is: Can you make money from it?

Speaker: Toby Perkins is a software engineer and complex systems analyst with extensive programming, design, and leadership experience in both business and
scientific applications. He has a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore, an MBA from Wharton, and an Apple II with a low serial number.

Toby may be reached via e-mail to toby@tobyperkins.com.

Meeting notice from Toby's August 2001 book discussion on Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies [editor: Andy Oram; publisher, O'Reilly; March 2001]. 

http://www.cpcug.org/user/entrepreneur/801meet.html

Meeting notice from Toby's e-commerce book discussion in June 1999, which followed up on the subjects of the book StrikingItRich.com by Jaclyn Easton:
                               http://www.cpcug.org/user/entrepreneur/699meet.html 

Parking: Very small free lot behind library--enter from Wisconsin Avenue or Albemarle Street. Some street parking is also available. There's also a parking structure across Wisconsin Avenue.

Metrorail--Tenleytown-AU Station on Red Line is diagonally across the street 
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Free and open to all

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the Cleveland Park Library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

Join us!