Late last year I attended the biannual SEAL conference.
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seal08/ It was all way above my head, but I
obtained an introduction into a field of computer science that was
previously unknown to me.
This field is associated with finding optimal or best fit solutions to very
complex problems.
In this talk I would give an introduction to Evolutionary Programming,
Evolutionary Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimisation and various other
interesting tidbits that I managed to comprehend from the conference. I
will give programmatic examples where possible.