Competition to be held as part of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021) organized by ACM SIGEVO (https://gecco-2021.sigevo.org).

Competition webpage: https://dynstack.adaptop.at

In this competition we give you a server where you can delve into two challenging and mysterious worlds of blocks and stacks. The hero in these worlds are robotic cranes that are fearlessly stacking and delivering blocks. Did you ever wish to take control of such a robot solving a herculean task? Well, now is your chance! Our cranes want to do a good job and therefore rely on YOUR optimi...

Our good friend Nicolas Freitag McPhee earned the 2020–21 University of Minnesota Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award - an award that recognizes sustained research and artistic productivity of a Morris faculty member over the course of a career!

Stephan Winkler received the Researcher Award 2020 and Andreas Beham the Junior Researcher Award 2020 for their contributions within their research fields. Congratulations to both of them!