81. Ninad Jog's Home Page Profile, short stories, photos, writings on gay issues, queer theory, artificial life, history, linguistics, politics. http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ninad

Ninad Jog (a.k.a. Naughty Ninny) Ninad at Niagara Falls, Canada in summer 1999. Picture by Amit Adhikari. Welcome to my website! Please use the Site Map for rapid access to the content, or use the following section links. Check out What's New for the newest writings. Writings Gay Topics Poem, Essays, and Stories Research Artificial Life Publications List General Essays Recipes Pictures and Video Photo Albums Video Family Mother Father Sister Maternal Grandmother ... Maternal Grandfather Other School My Favorite Links How It Got To This I was born in Mumbai - the city formerly known as Bombay-, India a long time ago and spent my formative years in Pune , New Delhi and Mumbai. I moved to the Washington D.C. area in 1991 and have been living there ever since. My Writings and Publications I strive to speak in a manner that pleases others but am not constrained by any such qualms while writing. I write to speak my mind and I write to please myself. Some of the writings are non-controversial; most are not. I like to think that the writings reflect not only my knowledge but also showcase my thoughts, beliefs, prejudices and ignorance. When people refer to the writings as unconventional, I thank them for being polite - after all they could just as easily throw eggs in my face. Please follow the above links to sample the writings. My Family and Friends My family consists of parents, a sister, a grandmother and an assortment of cousins, uncles and aunts. As for friends, I am better at making new friends that at retaining old ones. So you'd better be new if you'd like to be friends with me. Please visit my

82. ECAL'95 Call For Papers 3rd. European Conference on artificial life. Granada, Spain, 46 June, 1995. Semantic Closure A guiding notion to ground artificial life; Jon Umerez et al. http://kal-el.ugr.es/ecal95.html

3rd. European Conference on Artificial Life Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995. Organized by: Universidad de Granada Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index Links to some papers available online Photo album, with exactly 5 pictures! Program Secretary Papers Available in the Springer Book Opening session P. Schuster , IMB, Jena (D), W. Fontana , U. of Wien (A). Closing session I. Stengers , ULB, Brussels (B); E. Minch , Stanford U., CA (USA). Foundations and Epistemology Invited talk Artificial Life Needs a Real Epistemology H. Pattee , SUNY Binghamton, NY (USA). Chair G. Kampis , ELTE U., Budapest (H). Accepted papers: The Inside and Outside View of Life ; G. Kampis et al. Simulatability, Computability, and System Representation: Elements of a Theory of Simulation ; Steen Rasmussen et al. Semantic Closure: A guiding notion to ground Artificial Life ; Jon Umerez et al. Grounding and the Entailment Structure in Robots and Artificial Life ; Erich Prem et al. Mean Field Theory of the Edge of Chaos ; H. Gutowitz, C. Langton. Escaping from the Cartesian Mind-Set: Heidegger and Artificial Life ; Michael Wheeler et al.

83. Vida Artificial En Español Translate this page Traducción de artificial life Playhouse. artificial life and Complex Systems A Subject Catalogue catálogo de temas relacionados con la vida artificial. http://kal-el.ugr.es/VidArt/VidaArti.html

Página principal del grupo GeNeura G-Prop: combinación de perceptrón multicapa y redes neuronales Vida Artificial en español La Vida Artificial se suele definir como Christopher Langton Ciencias de la Complejidad Instituto de Santa Fe para el Estudio de los Sistemas Complejos Indice Temas : diversos temas tratados por la Vida Artificial. Herramientas computacionales usadas en Vida Artificial. Recursos y gente en español sobre Vida Artificial. Algunos recursos interesantes Temas ECAL'95 ALIFE V FAQ sobre Vida Artificial Origen de la Vida Mundos artificiales Herramientas redes neuronales y los comprimido con gzip y comprimido con pkzip Recursos y gente En España hay varios grupos principales trabajando en Vida Artificial: Dirigido por Alvaro Moreno Bergareche Dirigido por y Francisco Montero. Sus temas principales son la evolucion del metabolismo y el origen de la vida. dirigido por Grupo del Departamento de Materia Condensada de la Universidad de Sevilla dirigido por Grupo de Vida Artificial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Grupo del Departamento de Mario Martin Grupo de Sistemas Inteligentes , de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, dirigido por , con una linea de investigacion en Robotica autonoma.

84. Artificial Life Links to new research and emerging issues. http://geocities.com/goldenziby/alife.html

ARTIFICIAL LIFE Artificial Life is devoted to a new discipline that investigates the scientific, engineering, philosophical, and social issues involved in our rapidly increasing technological ability to synthesize life-like behaviors from scratch in computers, machines, molecules, and other alternative media. By extending the horizons of empirical research in biology beyond the territory currently circumscribed by life-as-we-know-it , the study of artificial life gives us access to the domain of life-as-it-could-be . Relevant topics span the hierarchy of biological organization, including studies of the origin of life, self-assembly, growth and development, evolutionary and ecological dynamics, animal and robot behavior, social organization, and cultural evolution. Following are the Links to highl y valuable resources on Artificial Life. What is Artificial Life? A brief overview of research in artificial life. From the Artificial Life VI Conference web site. http://alife7.alife.org/whatis.shtml

85. Elton, Matthew I work mainly on issues within the philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in how disciplines such as psychology, ethology, artificial intelligence, and artificial life can illuminate our understanding of what it is to be a rational, selfconscious agent. http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/arts/philosophy/staff/elton/home.html

86. Artificial Life artificial life. THE TOPICS AI in the news AI Overview Agents Applications Cognitive Science Education Ethical/Social Expert Systems FAQs Games Puzzles http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/alife.html

Artificial Life THE TOPICS AI in the news AI Overview Agents Applications Cognitive Science Education Ethical/Social Expert Systems FAQs History Interfaces Machine Learning Natural Language Philosophy Reasoning Reference Shelf Representation Resources Robots Science Fiction Speech Turing Test Vision What's Left? QUICK START tips AI Overview A - Z Index AI in the news Doing a Report for School Site Map Reference Shelf How to use this site Search Engine DIRECTORY How to use this site Announcements A - Z Index Site Map Reference Shelf Search Engine Contact AI Topics Notices Disclosures AI Topics Home AAAI Home Good Places to Start Readings Online Related Web Sites Related Pages ... More Readings see FAQ Recent News about THE TOPICS (annotated) Artificial Life ("AL" or "Alife") is the name given to a new discipline that studies "natural" life by attempting to recreate biological phenomena from scratch within computers and other "artificial" media. Alife complements the traditional analytic approach of traditional biology with a synthetic approach in which, rather than studying biological phenomena by taking apart living organisms to see how they work, one attempts to put together systems that behave like living organisms. Chris G. Langton

87. Evolving AI-Life By Natural Selection (Alastair Channon's Artificial Life) Alastair Channon's artificial life project. http://www.channon.net/alastair/

Research Overview Of The Area Software Selected Publications ... Contact Details Research The Evolutionary Emergence of Intelligent Behaviours via Computational Natural Selection A new approach to creating intelligence, rooted in Artificial Life and Natural Selection rather than traditional AI. Computational natural selection, in which the phenotype to fitness mapping is an emergent property of the evolving environment and competition is biotic rather than abiotic, is a paradigm that aims towards the creation of open-ended evolutionary systems. Within such an environment, increasingly complex behaviours can emerge. Overview Of The Area Darwinism is the most powerful and unifying theory in biology. Underlying it is the principle of 'descent with modification' (evolutionary change), that species are not fixed: that new species arise from those which already exist, some of which become extinct. The theory can be summarised as four statements of fact and an inference (cf. chp. 12 of Gould's "Life's Grandeur" / "Full House"): All organisms tend to produce more offspring than survive.

88. Artificial Life 2000 Translate this page artificial life. Inhalt Diese interdisziplinär orientierte Veranstaltung beinhaltet eine Einführung in artificial life sowie einen allgemeinen Überblick. http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/teaching/AL00.html

this applet is written by Conrad Parker Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2000 Artificial Life Prof. Dr. R. Pfeifer Hanspeter Kunz Inhalt: Projektarbeiten: Artificial evolution and the iterated prisoner's dilemma Flocking: the boids Growing ferns: Lindenmayer systems Simulation of ant-based message routing Experiments with Creatures II Experiments with Robots Falls Sie eigene Ideen haben sind diese jedoch willkommen. Interessenten melden sich am besten in der Vorlesung oder per Email. Kontaktpersonen / weitere Informationen bei Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer, pfeifer@ifi.unizh.ch Hanspeter Kunz, hkunz@ifi.unizh.ch Skript: Das Skript ist noch im entstehen begriffen. Die fertiggestellten Teile sind als Word- oder PDF-Dateien download-bar. Titlepage Word PDF Contents Word PDF Chapter 1: Introduction Word PDF Chapter 2: Pattern formation Word PDF Chapter 3: Distributed intelligence Word PDF Chapter 4: Some applications of distributed intelligence - Ant Algorithms Word PDF Chapter 5: Agent-based simulations Word PDF Chapter 6: Artificial Evolution Word PDF Chapter 7: Conclusions Word PDF Links: Computational Beauty of Nature Complexity in Small Universes Exploring the Space of Cellular Automata The EdgeOfChaosCA Applet ... Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life

89. Get A-Life: Introduction An overview essay on some aspects of artificial life. http://www.infidels.org/~meta/getalife/index.html

If you've ever engaged in debate with a creationist, you'll know that they can be extremely slippery. One of their favorite tactics is to claim that evolution is "just a theory" because it cannot be scientifically demonstrated. (Of course, it's not as if any of the stuff they believe can be scientifically demonstrated, but let's forget that minor detail.) The question of what constitutes scientific proof is what's really at stake. We can prove that evolution is scientifically valid by looking at the fossil record, DNA evidence, and lab data from genetics experimentsbut Creationists will claim that evidence like that is insufficient, or even invalid. They will claim that to demonstrate the proof of a theory, it must be possible to demonstrate the entire theory, right there before their very eyes. This is clearly an unreasonable demand. There's no serious doubt that dinosaurs once existed, even though I can't actually show you a diplodocus grazing quietly in a field. For that matter, there's no serious intellectual debate about whether the Second World War actually happened, even though I can't actually show you Germany invading Poland, or let you ask Hitler why he decided to do so. Nevertheless, there's something vaguely dissatisfying about deducing how animals evolved by looking at the imprints their skeletons left in a rock. It would be much more exciting if we could demonstrate new species appearing from nowhere; or if we could demonstrate self-reproducing entities appearing by pure random chance.

90. Artificial Life VII Seventh International Conference on artificial life Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA 16 August 2000. artificial life VII. artificial life VII has ended. http://alife7.alife.org/

Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA 1-6 August 2000 Home Topics Organizers Conference Schedule ... Contact Information Last updated: 01/08/2002 Webmaster: Tracy Teal Artificial Life VII The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems Reed College Portland, Oregon , USA 1-6 August 2000 "Looking Backward, Looking Forward" The next Artificial Life conference will be in 2002. Sign up on the announce mailing list to receive general Alife announcements. This year's conference on artificial life is Artificial Life VIII being held in Sydney, Australia. Artificial Life VII has ended. Thanks to everyone who attended! It was a terrific conference. Anthony Leikens has posted a day by day account of the conference at http://www.alife.org The survey and message board are still available at http://204.121.7.40/alife if you want to add your opinion to discussions on Artificial Life. Conference proceedings reference: Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference , edited by Mark A. Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen ( MIT Press For more information please e-mail: alife7@alife.org

91. Creature Labs Innovative company researching artificial life technology to produce believable digital and mechanical creatures. Download and Developer sections. http://www.creaturelabs.com

92. Artificial Life To order your copy of artificial life click here. http://www1.oup.co.uk/alife/

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93. The Temple Of Alife A good designed site with many interactive applets introducing you to artificial life. http://alife.12pt.com/

94. Artificial Life artificial life. Just a disorganized list of links on this topic Some definitions of the term artificial life http://www.red3d.com/cwr/alife.html

Artificial Life Just a disorganized list of links on this topic... Some definitions of the term Artificial Life from SFI's ALife Online in the ALife VI conference pages collected by Moshe Sipper Artificial Life Online ... Artificial Life Journal Artificial Life resources: by Titus Brown by Patrick Tufts at Yahoo Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life by Moshe Sipper Artificial Life by Steven Levy, an introductory book for general audiences Conferences: Artificial Life VI UCLA June 27-29, 1998 ALife Bibliography (semi-annotated, on-line publications, by Ezequiel A Di Paolo) Sussex Evolutionary Robotics Evolution of Behavior for VROOM Artificial Life software packages Online ALife Examples (Yahoo) Zooland "The Artificial Life Resource" (by Jörg Heitkötter) Artificial Life and Complex Systems Catalogue (by Y. Kanada) Vida Artificial Artificial Life Syllabus (by Leigh Tesfatsion) Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Participatory Artificial Life Demonstration TechnoSphere Artificial Life at HPLB ... Artificial-Life Simulators and Their Applications See also my pages on: Boids Behavioral Animation Evolutionary Computation Send comments to Craig Reynolds cwr@red.com

95. Center For Complex Systems Research Founded in 1986, the Center for Complex Systems Research studies systems that display adaptive, selforganizing behavior and systems that are usually characterized by a large throughput, such as turbulent flow, lightning, and the flow of information through the internet. Models and techniques drawn from nonlinear dynamics and chaos, neural nets, cellular automata, artificial life, and genetic algorithms are then developed to describe these complex systems. A collection of technical reports and scientific publications of CCSR researchers is available. http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu

Center for Complex Systems Research University of Illinois ABOUT PEOPLE RESEARCH EDUCATION SEMINAR/SYMPOSIUM ... RECENT PUBLICATIONS The Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) studies systems that display adaptive, self-organizing behavior and systems that are usually characterized by a large throughput, such as turbulent flow, lightning, and the flow of information through the internet. We develop models and techniques drawn from nonlinear dynamics and chaos, neural nets, cellular automata, artificial life, and genetic algorithms to describe these complex systems. Each year CCSR organizes and hosts the conference Understanding Complex Systems The Center for Complex Systems Research has a rich history. Founded in 1986 by Stephen Wolfram, the center was later led by Norman Packard and E. Atlee Jackson. A collection of technical reports and scientific publications of CCSR researchers ranging from cellular automata to entrainment control of chaos, experimental studies of turbulent flows, chaotic electronic circuits, and fractal agglomeration patterns is available. The research at CCSR is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. NSF PHY 01-40179, NSF DMS 03-25939 ITR, and NSF DGE 03-38215

96. Artificial Life, Mobile Robotics Research Group, Edinburgh University artificial life. biological models. artificial painter artificial life techniques can also be used to evolve aesthetic pictures to be used in artistic design. http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/mrg/research/artificial_life.html

Chris Adams M OBILE R ... research artificial life biological models social robots learning by imitation artificial life Contact: Tim Taylor Last updated: Fri Dec 1 22:23:55 2000 Research Topics evolutionary robotics neuroethological robotics speciation via habitat specialization artificial painter ... evolution of parallel self-replicating programs Miscellaneous links to other ALife-related pages evolutionary robotics Are robots technical devices that have to be developed and controlled by a human engineer, or could robots also develop and control themselves autonomously? Traditional robotics that uses Artificial Intelligence planning techniques to program robot behaviors works toward the first, while the Autonomous Robotics approach suggest that the second is a possibility. The robots built according to this approach should be able to adapt to both uncertain and incomplete information in constantly changing environments. At least two different techniques to reach this goal can be identified. One is to imitate the learning process of a single natural organism. Another, called Evolutionary Robotics, is to reproduce the phylogenetic evolution on populations of robots. Evolutionary Robotics lets a simulated evolution process develop adaptive robots. By applying selective reproduction on a population of robots the simulated evolution process is directly inspired by the Darwinian evolution theory.

97. EFF "Net Culture - Artificial Life & Intelligence" Archive EFF Net Culture artificial life Intelligence Archive. http//www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/AI/. Last Updated Thu Mar 13 104254 PDT 2003. http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Artificial_life/

EFF Home Page Alerts Topic Index EFF "Net Culture - Artificial Life & Intelligence" Archive http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/AI/ Last Updated Thu Mar 13 10:42:54 PDT 2003 Files Subdirectories On-Site Links Off-Site Links Files in this Archive artifice_and_intelligence.paper Alan Roberts attempts to debunk Artificial Intelligence. (1993) artificial_life.article Article by Seeker1 about the development of "artificial life," programs that model cellular evolution and the effect of such programs on science, from biology to physics. brookings.newsbyte Brief newsbite about a new program developed at the Brookings Institute that models societal evolution. fuzzy_logic_japan.article short article about software design in Japan, illustrating a fuzzy logic concept (3 values instead of only "true" or "false": "true", "false", "not false" in which "not false" may be set to "false". hycon.concept Explanation of the concept of the "hycon": a computer "agent", artificially intelligent, and considered an entity with its own rights, even citizenship. wallowing_in_lingo.html

98. Artificial Life As Philosophy artificial life as Philosophy. Daniel C. Dennett Center for Cognitive Studies for artificial life, vol 1, no. 1 1994 artificial life as Philosophy. http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/alifephl.htm

Artificial Life as Philosophy Daniel C. Dennett Center for Cognitive Studies for Artificial Life , vol 1, no. 1 Artificial Life as Philosophy There are two likely paths for philosophers to follow in their encounters with Artificial Life: they can see it as a new way of doing philosophy, or simply as a new object worthy of philosophical attention using traditional methods. Is Artificial Life best seen as a new philosophical method or a new phenomenon? There is a case to be made for each alternative, but I urge philosophers to take the leap and consider the first to be the more important and promising. Philosophers have always trafficked in thought experiments, putatively conclusive arguments about what is possible, necessary, and impossible under various assumptions. The cases that philosophers have been able to make using these methods are notoriously inconclusive. What "stands to reason" or is "obvious" in various complex scenarios is quite often more an artifact of the bias and limitations of the philosopher's imagination than the dictate of genuine logical insight. Artificial Life, like its parent (aunt?) discipline, Artificial Intelligence, can be conceived as a sort of philosophythe creation and testing of elaborate thought experiments, kept honest by requirements that could never be imposed on the naked mind of a human thinker acting alone. In short, Artificial Life research is the creation of prosthetically controlled thought experiments of indefinite complexity. This is a great way of confirming or disconfirming many of the intuitions or hunches that otherwise have to pass as data for the sorts of conceptual investigations that define the subject matter of philosophy. Philosophers who see this opportunity will want to leap into the field, at whatever level of abstraction suits their interests, and gird their conceptual loins with the simulational virtuosity of computers.

99. Artificial Life In Computer Graphics artificial life in Computer Graphics. Herds, Flocks, and Schools; com/cwr/boids.html. Videos from the SIGGRAPH 9 Course on artificial life http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/art_life/art_li

Artificial Life in Computer Graphics Herds, Flocks, and Schools Worms and Snakes Fish Humans Relevant WWW Sites Karl Sims: ftp://think.com/users/karl/Welcome.html Xiaoyuan Tu: http://reality.sgi.com/xiaoyuan Craig Reynolds (Boids): http://hmt.com/cwr/boids.html Videos from the SIGGRAPH 9 Course on Artificial Life Flocks (Craig Reynolds - Quicktime, 10 mbytes) Fish (Dimetri Terzopoulos - Quicktime, 14 mbytes) Evolution (Karl Sims - Quicktime, 11 mbytes) ALIVE Project (Patti Maes - Quicktime, 13 mbytes) Other relevant videos Eric the Dynamic Worm Wildebeast stampede from Walt Disney 's "Lion King" (shows herds algorithm, Quicktime, 4 mbytes) Main Animation Page HyperGraph Home page. Last changed February 08, 2000 , G. Scott Owen, owen@siggraph.org

100. Digital Biology Digital Biology was established in order to conduct research into, and develop technology based on, artificial life. http://www.digitalbiology.com/

Pushing the boundaries of scientific illustration... Bring your exhibits to life! By utilizing advances in the game technology industry, 3d graphics hardware, and artificial life research, Digital Biology has developed proprietary computer animation software for creating real-time, photo-realistic interactive simulations of biological phenomena that push the boundaries of scientific illustration. The end result is multimedia content that is both highly entertaining and educational These custom simulations are designed to run on affordable desktop computers without the need for expensive, specialized hardware, and can be optionally displayed on large, high resolution screens for a captivating viewer experience. These simulations can also be continuously updated and customized to reflect exhibitor needs, and they provide the ideal medium for visualizing hard-to-observe natural phenomena or difficult-to-explain biological concepts. They can even be used to 'bring to life' extinct fauna. Key features of these simulations include: real-time interaction among organisms as well as between organisms and the viewer

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