Artificial Life Ii

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780201525717
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life II written by Christopher G. Langton and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial life is a new field of scientific inquiry that studies biology by attempting to synthesize such biological phenomena as life, evolution, and ecological dynamics within computers and other "artificial" media. In addition to uncovering new ways to study life as we know it, a life extends research to the larger domain of life as it could be, whatever it might be made of and wherever it might be found in the universe.This proceedings volume, based on the second artificial life workshop held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1990, reflects the evolution and horizons of this rich field of study, and builds on the proceedings of the seminal first workshop, held at Los Alamos in 1987 (also available from Addison Wesley). This compendium includes more than 30 papers spanning the spectrum of a-life research, from studies of the origin of life to models of complex systems.

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life II written by Christopher G. Langton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life II written by Christopher G. Langton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vickery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780201554922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Care of Yourself written by Vickery and published by . This book was released on 1991-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Langton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429709005
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life written by Christopher Langton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together 160 computer scientists, biologists, physicists, anthropologists, and other assorted ""-ists,"" all of whom shared a common interest in the simulation and synthesis of living systems. During five intense days, we saw a wide variety of models of living systems, including mathematical models for the origin of life, self-reproducing automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more The workshop itself grew out of my frustration with the fragmented nature of the literature on biological modeling and simulation. For years I had prowled around libraries, shifted through computer-search results, and haunted bookstores, trying to get an overview of a field which I sensed existed but which did not seem to have any coherence or unity. Instead, I literally kept stumbling over interesting work almost by accident, often published in obscure journals if published at all."

Author : Stefan Helmreich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918770
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life—primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity—introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Artificial Life Researchers in the subject of artificial life analyze systems that are related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution by employing simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. Artificial life is a subfield within the field of synthetic biology. Christopher Langton, a theoretical biologist from the United States, was the one who gave the field its name in 1986. In 1987, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Langton arranged and hosted the very first symposium on the subject matter. There are three primary categories of artificial life, all of which get their names from the methods used to create them: soft, which comes from software; hard, which comes from hardware; and wet, which comes from biochemistry. Researchers who investigate traditional biology through the lens of artificial life do so by attempting to replicate parts of biological occurrences. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Artificial Life Chapter 2: Conway's Game of Life Chapter 3: Cellular Automaton Chapter 4: Evolutionary Computation Chapter 5: Swarm Intelligence Chapter 6: Multi-agent System Chapter 7: Agent-based Model Chapter 8: Artificial Chemistry Chapter 9: Artificial Development Chapter 10: Von Neumann Universal Constructor (II) Answering the public top questions about artificial life. (III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial life in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial life' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial life.

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679743897
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life written by Steven Levy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?

Author : Christoph Adami
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387946467
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Artificial Life written by Christoph Adami and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students, researchers and professional scientist eager to gain insight into the emerging frontiers of Artifical Life, Chris Adami's work provides the basic underpinnings for properly understanding this interdisciplinary research area. The CD-ROM accompanying the book invites readers to actively experience artificial evolution in "real time" by using a proprietary simulation software program, AVIDA, which is contained on the CD.

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621120
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Life written by Christopher G. Langton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.