Grey Thumb Boston
Next Meeting
| TBD |
About Grey Thumb Boston Meetings
Meetings are held on the first (non-holiday) Monday of every month. Please check the page for the upcoming meeting for venue information. Official meeting announcements are also made on the Grey Thumb Mailing List. Subscribe to the list for the latest updates on Grey Thumb meetings.
The usual meeting format is a brief introductory period followed by a presentation lasting between 1/2 hour and one hour. After the presentation, questions may be asked of the presenter and people are free to socialize. Food and drinks may be ordered both during and after the presentation.
Grey Thumb is inspired by the Homebrew Computer Club and by Make magazine, but is geared mostly toward artificial life, agent based simulation, and evolutionary computation. Our goal is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to help create a nucleus of interest in these subjects in the Boston area.
Additional smaller scale gatherings such as impromptu meetings and "hacking sessions" may be held from time to time. Subscribe to the mailing list to be kept up to date on any additional activities.
Mailing Lists
Get announcements about future meetings on the boston-announce list, or chat about artificial life with Grey Thumb Boston members on the boston-chat list.
Past Meetings
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Video |
| Aug. 7th, 2006 | The Breve environment for 3d agent-based simulation | Jon Klein | |
| Sept. 11th, 2006 | Evolvable instruction set virtual machines (EISVMs) | Adam Ierymenko | Video |
| Oct. 2nd, 2006 | Capture the Flag Agent Programming Contest | Martin C. Martin | |
| Nov. 6th, 2006 | The Evolution Prize | Brig Klyce | |
| Dec. 4th, 2006 | Cooperation and Computational Evolution | Lee Spector | Video |
| Jan. 8th, 2007 | Co-Evolutionary Learning: Beyond Competition | Jordan Pollack | Video |
| Feb. 5th, 2007 | History of Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computation | Chuck Lewin | Video |
| March 5th, 2007 | Simulating crowds of human agents with BlenderPeople | Roland Hess | |
| April 2nd, 2007 | Avagadro versus the Engineer | Paul Dworkin | Video |
| May 7th, 2007 | Biomimetic Robots: Building Machines from Soft Materials | Barry Trimmer | Video |
| June 4th, 2007 | Co-Evolving Agents on the Web | Pablo Funes | |
| July 11th, 2007 | Stem Cell Embryogenesis | Dr. M. William Lensch | |
| Sept. 10th, 2007 | Wet Artificial Life | Jason Kelly | Video 1 Video 2 |
| Oct. 1st, 2007 | Genomics and High Performance Computing | Chris Dwan | Video 1 Video 2 |
| Nov. 4th, 2007 | Virtual Ant Colonies and Simulated Ecosystems | Brian Peltonen | Video |
| Dec. 11th, 2007 | International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition | Mackenzie Cowell | |
| Feb. 5th, 2008 | Love in the Age of Computation | Chuck Lewin | video |
| March 3rd, 2008 | Cognitive Algorithms for Engineering, and Modeling of Language and Cultural Evolution | Leonid I. Perlovsky | video |
| April 7th, 2008 | Self Organizing Traffic Controllers | Carlos Gershenson | |
| May 6th, 2008 | StarLogo TNG | Eric Klopfer | |
| June 3rd, 2008 | Biomimetic Robots | Joeseph Ayers |