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February 16, 2006
"It's Alive!": Introducing Alife
With the new year, I'm introducing to this blog a research interest of mine that I would like to explore: artificial life. If you don't know what that means, my definition of Alife is the discipline concerned with modeling the behavior and function of living organisms with software and hardware. That doesn't capture the full breadth of work that goes on under the alife moniker, but it does relate a basic aspect of most such work. A classic definition (from Langston) is "Artificial life is the study of artificial systems that exhibit behavior characteristic of natural living systems." Alife is related to the fields of biomementics, bioengineering, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, computer animation, and a few others. Pretty much everyone is welcome to join the party.
This is a fascinating area, and one that I am just getting my feet wet in. I'll take you along for the ride of my education process. Hopefully I'll convince a few people with greater credentials than I to contribute to the discussion as well. And finally, I hope to draw some connection from Alife back to the regular interests of this blog: law firms, technology, philosophy, and whatever else catches my fancy. Watch this category for continued postings, or subscribe to it via RSS.
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Life is much to short for every endeavor. I did some research years ago at Southern Technical Institute.
Alan Turing was a citation more than once.
best regards
You may already have this link.
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
Posted by: glen at February 16, 2006 11:06 PM