Links

 

General ALife-Related Links

 

Organizations:

 

• International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL)
• Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO)
• Biota.Org (has an ALife podcast!)

 

Journals:

 

• Artificial Life (MIT Press)
• Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press)
• Adaptive Behavior

 

Blogs and news sites:

 

• ComplexityBlog is a blog about complexity theory, agent based modeling, and similar stuff.
• Life Inspired is a blog about biologically inspired computing.
• Complexity Digest is a news site for complexity and related topics.
• Computationalism is an AI/alife blog with lots of book reviews.
• Panda's Thumb is another evolution-related blog.
• ScienceBlogs is a science weblog mega-site that features a number of formerly independent science blogs.

 

Resources in Boston and New England (maybe almost complete list)

 

People (other than Grey Thumb Society folks):

 

• Jordan Pollack - Runs the DEMO lab at Brandeis (see academic organizations below)
• Lee Spector - Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College with a strong interest in evolutionary computation.
• Karl Sims - Founder of [http://www.genarts.com/ GenArts]
• Brian Knep - Artificial life and complex systems based interactive artwork
• George Church at Harvard does some work with biological simulation and has an interest in such things.

 

Other groups / organizations:

 

• Boston Postmortem is a game developers group with several members interested in alife and related subjects for obvious reasons.
• Collision Collective is a science-technology-art convergence group in the Boston area.
• Art Interactive is a gallery specializing in interactive and technology-based art.

 

Academic organizations

 

• New England Complex Systems Institute
• Harvard Department of Systems Biology
• Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization at Brandeis University
• MIT Amorphous Computing homepage

 

Companies

 

• IcoSystem builds agent-based models of social, economic, and ecological phenomena.
• GenArts uses evolutionary programming techniques to generate CGI animations for film and video, and is led by artificial life pioneer [http://www.genarts.com/karl/ Karl Sims].

 

Resources Elsewhere (very incomplete list)

 

People

 

• Tom Schneider - Molecular Information Theory (loads of cool stuff here)
• Dr. Charles Ofria - Dr. Ofria is one of the MSU digital evolution lab guys and has published extensively on things like evolvable instruction sets, artificial evolution, etc.
• John Koza - John Koza at Stanford has done some great work applying genetic programming to software engineering and electronic circuit design, including producing human-competitive patentable results.
• Chris Adami - Chris Adami, formerly of CalTech and now of [http://www.kgi.edu/ The Keck Graduate Institute], is an evolutionary biologist who has done a tremendous amount of work in the artificial life field. Here's his page at KGI.
• Larry Yeager - From the School of Informatics at Indiana University.

 

Academic organizations

 

• Dublin City University Artificial Life Lab
• Michigan State University Digital Evolution Lab
• California Institute of Technology Digital Life Lab
• The Santa Fe Institute
• DE*SYN is a think tank that deals with this kind of stuff
• California Evolution Institute
• Indiana University School of Informatics

 

Companies

 

• Artificial Life, Inc. is an entertainment-oriented company.
• Natural Selection, Inc. builds machine learning systems based on genetic programming technology.
• Protolife is a company whose goal is "developing evolutionary chemistry with the long-range goal of creating artificial cells from nonliving raw material, and programming them with desired chemical functionality."