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Speaking at EPFL on the History of Self-Reproducing Machines
08 May 2023
I am excited to be travelling to EPFL in Switzerland this week to present a guest lecture on the early history of self-reproducing machines.
Read full article »Speaking at Creativity Unleashed workshop
28 Apr 2023
It was a pleasure to give an invited talk at the Creativity Unleashed workshop today, organised by Cross Labs in Kyoto. My talk was entitled Living Space: Substrates suitable for the open-ended evolution of creative behaviours.
Read full article »New paper in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation journal
15 Jul 2022
Another journal paper to come out of my ongoing collaboration with Alan Dorin and colleagues at Monash University on agent-based models of pollination dynamics is published today in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
Read full article »Barricelli's final paper on Artificial Life available here!
25 May 2022
In Chapter 5 of Rise of the Self-Replicators I discuss Nils Aall Barricelli’s pioneering work in the 1950s on evolving self-replicating digital organisms. There I mention his final paper on the topic, published in 1987 and entitled Suggestions for the starting of numeric evolution processes to evolve symbioorganisms capable of developing a language and technology of their own.
Read full article »Speaking at Cambridge University on Darwin and the Machine
11 Dec 2021
I am excited to be travelling down to Cambridge University this week to participate in the Histories of Artificial Intelligence Winter Symposium. I will be presenting a talk entitled Darwin and the Machine: Evolutionary influences in 19th and early 20th century visions of superintelligent AI, and their relevance today.
Read full article »New web version of book available to read online for free!
26 Nov 2021
I am delighted to announce the launch today of a new, open-access web version of our book, Rise of the Self-Replicators, which can be read for free online.
Read full article »Review of our book in the Technology and Culture journal
29 Oct 2021
I am really pleased to see another good review of our book Rise of the Self-Replicators in a journal a little further away from my home discipline of Artificial Life. Yulia Frumer’s review appears in the latest issue of the Technology and Culture journal.
Read full article »Another nice review of our book
23 Sep 2021
Our book Rise of the Self-Replicators has received another nice review, this time in the journal Artificial Life.
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