Michael Affenzeller and Gabriel Kronberger have attended the GPTP workshop 2014 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Michael talked about recent research in the field of symbolic regression and Gabriel demoed recent improvements and features of HeuristicLab.

Stephan Winkler who is currently in Michigan at the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action also joined the workshop due to the close proximity.

Stefan Wagner and Michael Affenzeller are going to host another installment of the EvoSoft workshop at the upcoming GECCO conference. Everyone is invited to submit a contribution addressing a number of different aspects. The deadline for the submission is March 28th, 2014.

A review of HeuristicLab was published in the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal (GPEM). Achiya Elyasaf and Moshe Sipper both from the Computer Science Department of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev summarize the major features and describe strengths and weaknesses. The review can be accessed at Springer Link.