Welcome to Grey Thumb

 

Grey Thumb is a group for scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems, and other related topics. Our first chapter is located in Boston, Massachusetts but today there are several chapters operating worldwide.

Our meetings are free, open to the public and are normally held on the first non-holiday Monday of every month. Visit our Boston meetings page for information.

Our name "Grey Thumb" is a play on green thumb, and refers to someone with a good intuitive understanding of evolutionary computation, artificial life, etc. In other words, it means "someone who is good at growing synthetic life."

Next Meeting — Netherlands

Tue. June 24th, 2008, 8:00 PM Darwin at Home Gerald de Jong

Next Meeting — Silicon Valley

Tues. June 24th, 2008, 7:00PM Synthetic Biology John Cumbers
With updates of projects by Jeffrey Ventrella and Bruce Damer

Next Meeting — London

Fri. July 11th, 2008, 5:45 PM EvoGrid Bruce Damer

Next Meeting — Boston

TBD

Project Images


A simple hypercycle that has evolved within a modified variant of the Nanopond evolvable instruction set virtual machine called Nanopond-MV. By Adam Ierymenko.


A physically simulated evolved agent in breve learns to walk. By Jonathan Klein.


Robot vision system using evolved algorithms annotating an image for depth and boundaries. By Martin C. Martin.


Ants collect aphids and food in an ant colony simulation written by Brian Peltonen.