Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial" media. In addition to uncovering new ways to study life as we know it, a life extends research to the larger domain of life as it could be, whatever it might be made of and wherever it might be found in the universe.This proceedings volume, based on the second artificial life workshop held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990, reflects the evolution and horizons of this rich field of study, and builds on the proceedings of the seminal first workshop, held at Los Alamos in 1987 (also available from Addison Wesley). This compendium includes more than 30 papers spanning the spectrum of a-life research, from studies of the origin of life to models of complex systems.
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Artificial Life is the new Artificial Intelligence.,
This review is from: Artificial Life II (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) (Paperback)
If you are intrested in how biological systems can be simulated via computer or in what contect computer programs or computer simulations can be called alive -- this is the book to read.
Eventhou the articials in this book are technical reports from a scientific conference most provide easy reading for the layperson. Artificial Life is a fassinating scientific endevor that seeks to do for biology what Artificial Instelligence did for psychology -- model biological processes, instead of mental processes on the computer and look to biology as a model for computation -- using techniques such as Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Neural Networks. I find that all the books I've read that were published by the Santa Fe Institute to be intresting -- how ever the Artifical Life series is the easiest for an armchair scientist to grasp.
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New York, Sciences of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute Studies, Redwood City, Connection Machine, Chris Langton, Harvard University Press, Ann Arbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen, University of California, University of Michigan Press, Academic Press, Emergent Computation, San Diego, Alvy Ray, Autocatalytic Replication of Polymers, Princeton University Press, Walter Fontana, Frequency Matrix, New Mexico, Theoretical Division New!
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Of the more than 60 papers submitted for consideration, we selected a little over 25 for publication in these proceedings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic bugs, autocatalytic metabolisms, catalytic links, infected spiral, representing time step, catalytic focusing, denotation matrix, empirical ethology, template nop, effective operand, denotation matrices, loop allocate daughter, tropic bugs, fitness spike, innovative collisions, dynamical fixed point, seeding set, pragmatic emergence, synthetic ethology, catalytic connections, best single individual, last emitter, apical front, bug model, sustained fitness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sciences of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute Studies, Redwood City, Connection Machine, Chris Langton, Harvard University Press, Ann Arbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen, University of California, University of Michigan Press, Academic Press, Emergent Computation, San Diego, Alvy Ray, Autocatalytic Replication of Polymers, Princeton University Press, Walter Fontana, Frequency Matrix, New Mexico, Theoretical Division New!
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- Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E. Goldberg on 6 pages
- Emergent Computation (Bradford Books) by Stephanie Forrest on 5 pages
- The Connection Machine (Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence) by W. Daniel Hillis on 4 pages
- Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell on 4 pages
- Blind Watchmaker (Penguin Science) by Richard Dawkins on page 35, page 406, and page 460
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- Principles Of Organization In Organisms (Santa Fe Institute Series) by Jay E. Mittenthal in Front Matter
- Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle in Back Matter
- Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology by William A. Dembski in Back Matter
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