Doctoral Dissertation

Grabowski, L. M. (2009). "The evolutionary origins of memory use in navigation." Co-advisors: C. Ofria and R.T. Pennock. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Papers

Lehman, J., et al. (2018). The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities. In review. Available from https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453

Leas, M., Dolson, E., Annis, R., Nahum, J., Grabowski, L., and Ofria, C. (2016). The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Memory, and the Early Evolution of Intelligence. Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016. MIT Press, pp. 408-416.
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Reilly, C., Tomai, E., and Grabowski, L. M. (2015). An evaluation of how changes to the introductory computer science course sequence impact student success. In the proceedings of the 2015 Frontiers in Education Conference. El Paso, Texas, USA. October 2015.

Lawrence-Fowler, Wendy A., Grabowski, L. M. and Reilly, C. F. (2015). Bridging the divide: Strategies for college to career readiness in computer science. In the proceedings of the 2015 Frontiers in Education Conference. El Paso, Texas, USA. October 2015.

Grabowski, L. M., & Magana, J. A. (2014). Building on Simplicity: Multi-stage Evolution of Digital Organisms. To appear in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIV). MIT Press, in press.

Grabowski L. M., Lawrence-Fowler, W. A., & Reilly, C. F. (2014). Emulating a Corporate Software Development Environment Through Collaboration Between Student Projects in Six Courses. To appear in Proceedings of 2014 Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, in press.

Grabowski, L. M, & Reilly, C. F. (2014). Promoting Inclusion of Underrepresented Populations in Computing. In Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'14), IEEE CPS.

Grabowski L. M., Bryson D. M, Dyer F. C., Pennock R. T., Ofria C. (2013). A Case Study of the De Novo Evolution of a Complex Odometric Behavior in Digital Organisms. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60466. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060466. Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0060466

Lawrence-Fowler, W. A., Grabowski L. M., Fowler, R. H. (2013). Using a Multidisicplinary Research Project to Strengthen Learning in Software Engineering. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2013).

Lawrence-Fowler, W. A., Grabowski L. M., Fowler, R. H., & Yedid, G. (2013). Convergence of Evolutionary Biology and Software Engineering: Putting Practice in Action. Proceedings of 2013 Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, 356-361.

Grabowski, L. M., Bryson, D. M., Dyer, F.C., Pennock, R. T., & Ofria, C. (2012). An analysis of the de novo evolution of a complex odometric behavior. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIII). MIT Press, pp. 585-586.

Grabowski, L. M. & Brazier, P. (2011). Robots, recruitment, and retention: broadening participation through CS0. Proceedings of 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE, F4H1-F4H5.

Grabowski, L. M., Bryson, D. M., Dyer, F.C., Pennock, R. T., & Ofria, C. (2011). Clever creatures: case studies of evolved digital organisms. Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. MIT Press, pp 276-283.

Grabowski, L. M., Bryson, D. M., Dyer, F.C., Ofria, C., & Pennock, R. T. (2010). Early evolution of memory use in digital organisms. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XII). MIT Press, pp. 224-231.

Elsberry, W, R., Grabowski L. M., Ofria C., and Pennock R. T. (2009). Cockroaches, drunkards, and climbers: modeling the evolution of simple movement strategies using digital organisms. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, March 30 - April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN.

Beckmann, B. E., Grabowski, L. M., McKinley, P. K., and Ofria, C. (2009). Applying digital evolution to the design of self-adaptive software. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, March 30 - April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN.

Grabowski, L. M., Elsberry, W. R., Ofria, C., and Pennock, R. T. (2008). On the evolution of motility and intelligent tactic response. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '08), July 12 - 16, 2008, Atlanta, GA.

Beckmann, B., Grabowski, L. M., McKinley, P., and Ofria, C. (2008). An autonomic software development methodology based on Darwinian evolution (Poster summary). 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2 - 6 2008, Chicago, IL.
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Grabowski, L. M., Luciw, M., and Weng. J. (2007). A system for epigenetic concept development through autonomous associative learning. 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007), July 11 - 13, 2007, London, UK.
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Grabowski, L. M. (2007). Robot Navigation: A Developmental Approach. Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing (MICWIC '07), March 30 - 31, 2007, Kellog Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI. Best Paper Award.
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Fowler, R. H., Tor, Y., Navarro, D., and Grabowski, L. (2003) Efficient text content extraction and browsing using the Abstract Text Viewer. International Conference on Internet Computing 2003 Special Session on Web Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV.

Brazier, P., Grabowski, L. and Dietrich, G. (2003). Closing the CS I - CS II gap: A Breadth-second approach. 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2003), November 5 - 8, 2003, Boulder, CO.
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