Next Meeting
| Friday July 11th | The EvoGrid: an Evolution Grid in Cyberspace |
BCS (CONSIG and other groups), GreyThumb London and the JCF
Friday 11th July 2008, 5.45 – 8.30 pm
BCS, First Floor, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
Bruce Damer will talk about the EvoGrid experiment. Artificial life programs have shown autonomous evolution. These programs are limited because they run in isolation. Bruce will explain how the Evogrid aims to overcome this limitation by engaging a community of developers to link their platforms into a single larger simulation.
Imagine simulated ants moving across the Internet into an L-system garden world and interacting with plants, or a digital soup with a number of small and larger symbio-organisms swimming between servers.
His talk will be followed by a discussions where members can share their views and experience. The EvoGrid is part of Damer’s PhD research at the University of East London/SmartLab and other institutions.
Bruce is a visionary technologist from Northern California whose work includes early graphical user interfaces for Xerox in the 1980s, pioneering work in the Avatar field in the 1990s, and innovations in the use of virtual worlds for space exploration working with NASA in the 2000s. He founded Biota.org in 1996 to provide a nexus for the community of artificial life developers, scientists, writers, and artists interested in the wider implications of evolution occurring within human technology.
This is a free event but pre-registration is required.
Please email;
mandy.bauer [at] hq.bcs.org.uk
Or, telephone; 01793 417 417
Please register early to avoid disappointment.