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Links within this site
External Links TV shows in streaming video (mainly english spoken). The videos are property of VPRO Noorderlicht. The streaming videos require a free Real Player.
25 minute show featuring the works of Valentino Braitenberg (Vehicles), Henrik Lund (Lego robots), and Barbara Webb (robotic crickets).
15 minute show on research conducted at the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems lab at West-England University. Featuring Chris Melhuish. Artificial Life On-line reader on Artificial
Life by prof. Rolf Pfeifer and Hanspeter Kunz (recommended) A very good introduction and overview to the field of Artificial Life by a leader in the field of embodied cognitive science. Rolf Pfeifer is also the writer of "Understanding Intelligence", the excellent introduction to 'new AI', and the founder of the experiment in global teaching, the Tokyo Lectures, in which his book is being discussed. PolyWorld
simulator by Larry Yaeger (1994) This simulator resembles our Framsticks experiments the best of all Alife simulations because Yeager also uses a realistic 3D world in which simulated creatures reproduce sexually, eat food that the world provides, fight, and die. PolyWorld is also created to study the emergence/evolution of social behaviour. Flocking and foraging were among the behaviour that emerged. Interesting stuff, and quite old (relatively). -- Also see his article in the literature section of the Virtual Life website. Tierra
digital evolution by Thomas Ray (1990) The Tierra simulator explores what happens when evolution by natural selection is embedded in the medium of digital computation. Pieces of software compete with each other for CPU time ("energy") and memory ("material resources"). Diverse ecological communities have emerged. These digital communities have been used to experimentally examine ecological and evolutionary processes: e.g., competitive exclusion and coexistence, host/parasite density dependent population regulation, the effect of parasites in enhancing community diversity, evolutionary arms race, punctuated equilibrium, and the role of chance and historical factors in evolution. -- Considered to be the first experiments of self-replication in difital media. Echo
simulation by John Holland (1993) Echo is an agent-based simulation tool developed to investigate mechanisms which regulate diversity and information-processing in systems comprised of many interacting adaptive agents, or complex adaptive systems (CAS). Echo agents interact via combat, trade and mating and develop strategies to ensure survival in resource-limited environments. Sims' Evolved
Creatures (1994) Famous work by Karl Sims in artificial evolution of 3D-based block creatures. This work is discussed frequently by the other authors. Nice video footage (through ftp).
Others (to be extended)
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