IlliGAL Blogging

During the mid-90s, Georges Harik visited the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab for an extended period as part of his PhD studies at the University of Michigan. He did a lovely thesis on the linkage learning GA, and did a number of other very creative things, including the gambler's ruin problem population sizing, compact GA, and extended compact GA. Georges left the lab to make his mark in commerce, first working for a data-mining group at SGI and then taking a position as one of the early employees at Google in early 1999. Today, Georges is Director of Googlettes as part of Google. Read and listen to his interview on WebTalkRadio about his role in Gmail.