Mark, Yes I am attending UT, and the NERO project is very interresting, there is a large storyboard in the hall with pictures of the virtual world of combat and going through and explaining a lot about the system. The graphical Vr is downloadable as well where you can test it out.James
I just ran across the following
references in Neuro-Evolution (including evolving topologies in neural networks)
and figured that they might be interesting to others on this list:
http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/project-view.php?RECORD_KEY(Projects)=ProjIDProjID(Projects)=14