Artificial Life

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15119654.post-1126592395846706612005-09-12T23:19:00.000-07:002005-09-13T11:13:45.353-07:00Artificial LifeChristopher G. Langton Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute. Table of Contents <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=foreword">Foreword</a> <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=intro">Editor's Introduction</a> 1 <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chpt1">Artificial Life as a Tool for Biological Inquiry</a> by Charles Taylor and David Jefferson <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap2">Cooperation and Community Structure in Artificial Ecosystems</a> by Kristian Lindgren and Mats G. Nordahl <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap3">Extended Molecular Evolutionary Biology: Artificial Life Bridging the Gap Between Chemistry and Biology</a> by P. Schuster <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap4">Visual Models of Morphogenesis</a> by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap5">The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence</a> by Luc Steels <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap6">Toward Synthesizing Artificial Neural Networks that Exhibit Cooperative Intelligent Behavior: Some Open Issues in Artificial Life</a> by Michael G. Dyer <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap7">Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents</a> by Pattie Maes <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap8">Chaos as a Source of Complexity and Diversity in Evolution</a> by Kunihiko Kaneko <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap9">An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life</a> by Thomas S. Ray <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap10">Beyond Digital Naturalism</a> by Walter Fontana, Günter Wagner and Leo W. Buss <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap11">Learning About Life</a> by Mitchel Resnick <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap12">Book Reviews: Books on Artificial Life and Related Topics</a> by David G. Stork <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap13">Computer Viruses as Artificial Life</a> by Eugene H. Spafford <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap14">Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life</a> by Melanie Mitchell and Stephanie Forrest <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap15">Artificial Life as Philosophy</a> by Daniel Dennett <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap16">Levels of Functional Equivalence in Reverse Bioengineering</a> by Stevan Hamad <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=chap17">Why Do We Need Artificial Life?</a> by Eric W. Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz <a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262121891&part=index">Index</a>alife gamenoreply@blogger.com