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2009/12/31: Information on my recently completed Coast-to-Coast Tour, during which I visited 20 universities in Canada and the Northern USA, can now be found here (including information on my talk "Taming the Complexity Monster" and a first selection of pictures from the trip).

2009/07/17: Our work on SATzilla (with Lin Xu, Frank Hutter and Kevin Leyton-Brown) has lead to excellent results at the 2009 SAT competition (further details can be found here and here.)

2008/12/07: I'll be teaching CPSC 536H, Topics in Algorithms: Empirical Algorithmics, in Spring 2009. Information on this course can be found at here.

2008/01/02: I'm back from my sabbatical. If you've sent me e-mail during my leave and never received a reply, I apologise: due to frequent travel and one major e-mail problem, your message may be at the bottom of a huge stack or lost entirely; if you resend your message now, I should be able to reply very soon.

2007/01/01: I am on sabbatical for all of 2007. During this time I'll travel quite a bit and may be difficult to reach via e-mail. In urgent cases, please contact my secretary, Evelyn Fong.

2006/06/10: The paper On the Quality and Quantity of Random Decisions in Stochastic Local Search for SAT (by my PhD student Dave Tompkins and myself) won the best paper award at the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. The paper explores how the behaviour and performance of stochastic local search algorithms depend on random decisions and properties of the pseudo-random number generators used for implementing them.

2004/08/27: My book, Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications (co-authored with Thomas Stützle) has now been published - check it out!

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2009/12/31:		Information on my recently completed Coast-to-Coast Tour, during which I visited 20 universities in Canada and the Northern USA, can now be found here (including information on my talk "Taming the Complexity Monster" and a first selection of pictures from the trip).
2009/07/17:		Our work on SATzilla (with Lin Xu, Frank Hutter and Kevin Leyton-Brown) has lead to excellent results at the 2009 SAT competition (further details can be found here and here.)
2008/12/07:		I'll be teaching CPSC 536H, Topics in Algorithms: Empirical Algorithmics, in Spring 2009. Information on this course can be found at here.
2008/01/02:		I'm back from my sabbatical. If you've sent me e-mail during my leave and never received a reply, I apologise: due to frequent travel and one major e-mail problem, your message may be at the bottom of a huge stack or lost entirely; if you resend your message now, I should be able to reply very soon.
2007/01/01:		I am on sabbatical for all of 2007. During this time I'll travel quite a bit and may be difficult to reach via e-mail. In urgent cases, please contact my secretary, Evelyn Fong.
2006/06/10:		The paper On the Quality and Quantity of Random Decisions in Stochastic Local Search for SAT (by my PhD student Dave Tompkins and myself) won the best paper award at the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. The paper explores how the behaviour and performance of stochastic local search algorithms depend on random decisions and properties of the pseudo-random number generators used for implementing them.
2004/08/27:		My book, Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications (co-authored with Thomas Stützle) has now been published - check it out!