ray@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Thomas Ray) (02/22/89)
I would like to obtain the proceedings, or information about the proceedings of the "Artificial Life" conference held last fall at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Please post information by e-mail or snail mail to: Tom Ray School of Life & Health Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE 19816 302-451-2753 ray@vax1.acs.udel.edu
cgl@beta.lanl.gov (C G Langton) (02/23/89)
The proceedings of the first Artificial Life workshop are available from
Addison-Wesley. They have a toll-free number for ordering: 800-447-2226.
The title is "Artificial Life: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems"
Edited by Christopher G. Langton
Volume # 6 in the series: Santa Fe Institute Studies in the
Sciences of Complexity.
The order #'s are: Hardback (~$40) 0-201-09346-4
Paperback (~$20) 0-201-09356-1
Here's the "official blurb":
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Artificial Life
The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
Edited by Christopher G. Langton
Center for Nonlinear Studies
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Artificial Life has recently emerged as a new and exciting field of scientific
research attempting to synthesize physical, chemical, or computational processes
which capture the complex dynamical and adaptive behaviors exhibited by natural
living systems. The field promises to make fundamental contributions to theoretical
biology by abstracting the logical form of life from its material basis, thereby
helping to locate life-as-we-know-it within the larger context of life-as-it-could-be,
in any of its possible physical incarnations.
"Artificial Life" summarizes a workshop conducted by the Center for Nonlinear
Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Part of the Santa Fe Institute Studies
in the Sciences of Complexity series published by Addison-Wesley, the book introduces
the field of Artificial Life, reviews its historical roots, and discusses its primary
goals and methodological approaches - giving examples of a variety of modeling
technologies and their application to the synthesis of specific biological phenomena.
It also contains an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 citations of
work relevant to the field of Artificial Life, and includes 40 illustrative color plates.
This proceedings volume includes papers on:
The historical roots of Artificial Life
The technical, theoretical, philosophical, and ethical challanges
confronting the field
The application of methods and results from nonlinear dynamics,
robotics, automata and formal language theory, artificial intelligence,
computer graphics, and nanotechnology to the pursuit of Artificial Life
Modeling techniques for the study of the origin of life, evolution,
growth and development, ecological dynamics, and many other phenomenological
aspects of life.
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Here is the table of contents:
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Artificial Life
Christopher G. Langton - CNLS/LANL
Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions
Richard Laing - Logic of Computers Group, U. of Michigan
Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life
H.H. Pattee - SUNY
Towards a Quantitative Theory of the Origin of Life
Steen Rasmussen - Technical University of Denmark & CNLS/LANL
Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life
Pablo Tamayo - Boston University
Hyman Hartman - Stanford University
Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology
Milan Zeleny - SUNY
George J. Klir - SUNY
Kevin D. Hufford - SUNY/Cornell
Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem
Norman Packard - CCSR, U. of Illinois
The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution
Stewart W. Wilson - The Rowland Institute for Science
Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway
Hans Moravec - Robotics Institute, CMU
The Evolution of Evolvability
Richard Dawkins - Oxford
Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms:
a Computer Graphics Perspective
Aristid Lindenmayer - Utrecht
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz - U. of Regina
The Artificial Menagerie
Peter Oppenheimer - NYIT
RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems
Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson,
Scott R. Turner, & Seth R. Goldman - UCLA
Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life
Pauline Hogeweg - Bioinformatica, Utrecht
Movable Finite Automata:
A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems
Narendra S. Goel, Richard L. Thompson - SUNY
Computational Metabolism:
Towards Biological Geometries for Computing
Marek W. Lugowski - U. of Indiana
Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life
Harold C. Morris - U. of British Columbia
Lego, Logo, and Life
Mitchel Resnick - MIT Media Lab
Modeling Behavior in Petworld
Bill Coderre - MIT Media Lab
Animal Construction Kits
Michael Travers - MIT Media Lab
Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines:
Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life
Conrad Schneiker - U. of Arizona
Biological and Nanomechanical Systems:
Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity
K. Eric Drexler - Stanford
Molecular Automata in Microtubules:
Basic Computational Logic of the Living State?
Stuart Hameroff - U. of Arizona
Steen Rasmussen & Bengt Mansson
- Technical University of Denmark
Some Types of Movements
Valentino Braitenberg
- Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics
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We are planning on holding the Second Artificial Life Workshop in
Santa Fe in the early Spring of 1990.
For further information about the proceedings, or to be placed on the
mailing list for announcements of workshops, proceedings, etc, please
send an email message to:
Chris Langton
Center for Nonlinear Studies Phone: 505-665-0059
MS B258 Email: cgl@LANL.GOV
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico
87545