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From: mjd4c@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Michael J. Daniel)
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In article <3abhdq$kht@news.bu.edu>, sfauteck@bu.edu (Samuel Fauteck) writes:
> I guess I'm just wondering why the people on the group who have the
> ability to implement genetic programming (or some of them) choose to spend
> their free-time developing "games" and such... I realize that game-theory,
> etc. is an area of research, just as valid as any other, but the emphasis
> seems to be (although I could be very wrong) on entertainment.  There are so
> many cool problems that GP can probably be used to solve.. "academic" pursuits
> are so much more satisfying (to me at least).


Give us some examples of really cool problems.


Michael



