The Field Guide appears in ACM's Technews, reddit, numerous blogs

Some recent Field Guide sightings include a nice mention in ACM's Technews roundup for 14 Apr 2008 and a listing by some kind (and unknown, to us) folks on reddit (here and there).

Other recent bloggers to mention the book include

• Postmaster


• Andrea Valente on Biscotti Danesi


• Dan (the author of the Watchmaker Framework for EC)


• JJ Merelo (who says that we were on the del.icio.us hotlist on 12 Apr!)


• theKit (who suggests using GP to evolve 3D designs using RepRap, an Open Source Replicating Rapid Prototyping 3d printer)


• The Mad Scientist

Thanks to everyone for the links and support. To date (about 3 weeks since release) there have been 6873 downloads of the book! Questions and comments always welcome in the comments here, or over in our discussion group.

Over 5,000 downloads!

Man, I go away for a few days of vacation, and the downloads more than double! We're now at just over 5,000 downloads of the book, and 12 more printed copies were ordered in the last five days as well.

Just as I was leaving, Jennifer Willies also posted a ton of good photos from the EvoStar event, including a nice shot of the three Field Guide authors and our cover artist.

More photos from the Field Guide unveiling

Antje Schwefel shared some of her photos from EuroGP, including the shot above of us (Bill, Tyler, Nic, and Riccardo, left to right) posing in our Field Guide shirts with Evelyne Lutton. Thanks to Antje for the photo!

The EvoStar 2008 site also has a link now for EvoStar photos that is in fact a pointer to the "evostar" tag on Flickr. These are currently dominated by the previously mentioned photos from JJ Merelo, and Tyler and myself, but there are also some nice photos from La Singularidad Desnuda, including the nice example of Riccardo's autographing handiwork below.



2,151 downloads and counting!

Field Guide sightings!

Several kind folks have put in a plug for the Field Guide on-line:

• Paul Myers on the prominent biology blog Pharyngula
• On Paulus De Blogkabouter
  
• Paul Wiegand on the Natural Computation and Coadaptive System Laboratory blog
• Pier Luca Lanzi on the Illinois GA Lab blog

Many thanks to all these folks for helping spread the word. Given our non-standard publishing and distribution model, we're particularly dependent on this sort of word of mouth support. Feel free to let us know if you've posted a plug for the book (in the comments or authors AT gp-field-guide DOT org DOT uk).

We're also looking for photos (like the one above from JJ Merelo) from the grand unveiling at EvoStar/EuroGP Wednesday in Naples, so please pass along those as well.